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called boora, and proceeding along the track it was found to 

 enter the scrub almost at once ; and at the distance of eighty- 

 seven yards on the right hand side there was the representation 

 of a bower bird's " playhouse," consisting of a collection of small 

 pebbles, fragments of bone, and the seeds of some wild fruits.* 

 Three yards farther on, also on the right, there was an effigy 

 made by tilling an old pair of trousers and a coat with grass so 

 as to resemble a man, a bundle of something being used for the 

 head. This figure was then propped up against a small tree and 

 represented a white fellow. 



The carvings on the soil, yammunyamun, commenced at the 

 distance of ninety-six yards from the large circle, and thirty-four 

 yards farther, close by the right side of the track, was an imita- 

 tion of a bullock lying down, formed by pieces of bark covered 

 with loose earth, having the dry bony skeleton of a bullock's 

 head laid on one end of it, and a bent stick stuck in the other end 

 for a tail. 



At a distance of 143 yards from the starting point, on the 

 right side, was a horizontal figure of Baiamai, outlined by 

 heaping up the loose earth, which was one foot two inches 

 high at the chest. The length of the tigure was nine feet 

 six inches, and the width from hand to hand nine feet. On 

 the opposite side of the track was an image of Gooberangal, 

 the wife of Baiamai, formed in the same way, but with the 

 addition of a coat of kneaded clay on top in which were moulded 

 the features of the face, the mamma? and the pubes. The length 

 of this tigure was ten feet nine inches, with a distance of eight 

 feet between the hands. 



Twenty yards farther on than the preceding, on the left, was 

 the representation of an emu with its head towards the large 

 ring, outlined by a nick, or groove, between one and two inches 

 deep, and about two inches wide, cut in the soil by means 

 of tomahawks and sharpened sticks ; its length from the bill to 

 the tail being twelve feet six inches, and its height from the feet 

 to the top of the back seven feet nine inches. The legs are short 

 in proportion to the body, being only two feet six inches long — 

 perhaps to indicate that the bird is sitting or crouching down. 



* The bower-bird builds its nest in a tree, but forms these " bowers " or " playhouses," as 

 they are called by bushmen, on the ground in the way described. 



