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Fourteen yai'ds beyond the porcupine, on the same side, was 

 an imitation of a kangaroo rat's nest, formed of grass. After 

 another interval of fourteen yards, also on the same side, there 

 was carved on the ground the figure of a man with a boomerang 

 in each hand and a belt around the waist. The object, two 

 feet five inches long, rising from the top of his head, was, the 

 artist told me, intended to represent a feather stuck in his hair. 

 This figure, which was at right angles to the track, with the feet 

 towards it, bears a striking resemblance to some of the rock 

 pictures of the aborigines of other districts, large numbers of 

 which have been described by me in different publications. 



On the other side of the track, and at right angles to it, 

 opposite the last described figure, was the representation of a 

 woman, cut out in the ground in a similar manner. The eyes 

 and mouth were delineated, but the feet were omitted. The 

 height was seven feet four inches, but would have been more if 

 the legs had been straight. 



The imitative faculties of the natives were displayed in a few 

 drawings, copied from scenes in the life of the white man, which 

 were intermixed with the others. At one place an attempt had 

 been made to represent a railway train, the carriages with their 

 windows, the numerous wheels, and the two rails on which they 

 were running. At another place a native artist had drawn a 

 chain like those used when working bullocks in a dray. The 

 links of the chain were on a colossal scale, being four feet nine 

 inches long, and one foot three inches wide. This carving was 

 close to the raised figure of the bullock previously described. 

 Another draftsman, apparently a poker player, had succeeded in 

 representing the four aces. Four rectangular spaces, about two 

 feet long and eighteen inches wide, were hrst made side by side to 

 indicate four cards, and on the middle of each of these one of the 

 aces was delineated. All the drawing referred to in this para- 

 graph was cut out in the soil. 



Besides the foregoing figures of men, animals, and other objects, 

 there were a large number of curious designs, which the Kamilaroi 

 smd'Wir&dth.VLritribescallyammunyamun,* cut into the turf. These 

 devices commenced at ninety-six yards from the larger circle, and 



* Journ. Anthrop. Inst, xxv., 302-323. 



