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the knee to the hip parallel with the muscles ; the bone wan visible and the freed 

 muscles protruded. The wound was tied up in clay and ashes, and it was but a short 

 time afterwards that the boy was about again almost without a limp. 



Mr. Watson gives the following interesting information re a celebrated black 

 ruffian, Paddy Maloney by name, who chopped liis gin's both legs off about six inches 

 below the knee. The gin survived the operation and lived in the Currawilla Station 

 Camp for j-ears afterwards. It is a pitj^ however, that no information is forthcoming 

 with reference to the method of cure adopted. ^- 



COUNTER-IRRITANTS. 



The use of counter-irritants for pains is by no means uncommon. An instance 

 \\as recently brought under my notice by Dr. Kesteven, when a full-blooded black 

 was admitted into the Gin Gin Hospital suffering from abdominal pains and pains in 

 his left shoulder wliich he had for over two da3's. Previous to admittance he had 

 scored the abdomen on each side of the mid-Une with eight or nine skin-deep incisions 

 from 1 to l.J inches in length, and on the shoulder three long shallow incisions 4 to 5 

 inches long wliich extended over the scapulae. 



BORA RING, NERANG. 



I am indebted to Prof. S. B. J. Skertchly (Nerang) for the following notes : — 



" SHuatio)i. — One mile south of Nerang Bridge, a quarter of a mile south 

 of Nerang Railway Station, on the road to Gilston. The road traverses and has 

 nearly destroyed the ring. 



''Age. — The Nerang blacks are now extinct. The ring was last used in 186.5 

 for a celebrated corrobboree which Mr. E. Cooi^er (my informant) attended. 



'' Position. — The Bora-ground was a noted one because (a) it was situated 

 at what is called " The Falls' on Nerang River, a bar of sandstone where fish were 

 and are easily obtained ; (6) it was the last crossing jilace or ford ; (c) though in 

 'forest' it was near 'scrub." 



" The flat upon wliich the Bora-ground is situated is covered with alluvium. 

 There are absolutely no stones in it. 



" Usage. — The sandstone in the neighbourhood (Palaeozoic, jorobably Car- 

 boniferous) weathers into very peculiar boulder-like masses, which at first deceived 

 me as being waterworn. The river grinds these into still more implement-like forms. 

 The blacks, finding such ready-made stones ready to hand in hundreds, took them 

 to the Bora-ground for temj)orary use. Every stone on the flat is of this quasi- 

 imjjlement form, and has been brought up and at the close of a meeting left as not 

 worth carrying away. 



" Mr. Cooper and I found twenty in half an hour, and these I have given 

 to the Queensland Museum. Some of them have been more or less worked. The 

 cruder series form what may be called the Eoliths of the Australian cultus, and 

 should be sought for elsewhere as illustrating a phase of native life." 



'-The blacks eventually executed Faddy Maloney in their o\m way (W. H. Watson). 



