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bringing up through his mouth quartz crystals (goorowee) or 

 pieces of string. 



The guardians now catch hold of the boys' heads and straighten 

 them up, telling them at tlie same time to raise their eyes and 

 take particular notice of the old men. After they have looked 

 at these performances for a while some of the chief men who are 

 standing close by catch hold of the stumps {u>ar?-angooriHga) on 

 which the old men are sitting, and shake them slightly from side 

 to side. While these performances are going on the other men 

 dance round outside the ring, and in a short time the old men 

 descend from the stumps and dance round the heaps of earth, 

 Kallagallarranga, before described, followed by a number of the 

 other old men present. 



Then one of the guardians leads a novice into the kangarciga/, 

 and jumps about with him amongst the old men, after which he 

 takes the boy to the other side of the ring, where he remains 

 standing with him. Then another guardian takes another 

 novice and goes through the same performances until all the 

 boys have been dealt with, after which the guardians and 

 novices go out of the ling by stepping over the embankment 

 on the side opposite to that which they entered, where they 

 i-emain standing as spectators. The old men then pull one 

 of the warra7igooringa out of the ground and hold it in a 

 horizontal position, and dance round a few times cariying the 

 stump in their hands, after which they lay it down in the 

 middle of the ring. The other stump is now pulled up and a 

 similar performance gone through, after which it is placed on 

 the ground beside the first one. A sufficient quantity of wood, 

 which had previously been collected for the purpose, is then laid 

 down upon these warrangooringa, to which a tire is applied, and 

 some of the men remain in the vicinity till they are completely 

 consumed. 



The guardians, with their novices accompanied by the rest of 

 the men, then start away and proceed several miles into the 

 bush. The novices have to walk along with their eyes cast down, 

 and are iiot allowed to look at anything except the ground just 

 in front of them, their guardians being beside them. At some 

 convenient place by the way a stoppage is made, and the boys 

 are put standing in a row with their heads bowed as usual. The 



