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(6) Occasionally the endless string may be arranged to re- 
present certain ideas, on the flat (Pl. XII., 7, a Hawk’s Foot, 
from the Palmer 8.), on the ear (PI. XIL., 8, a Wasp’s nest, 
from Cape Bedford), &e. 
(c) At Cape Bedford the lightning game (XYI, derri- 
melli-balkalkal, z.¢., lightning to imitate) is played as fol- 
lows :—Two children, some little distance apart, put an end- 
less string round their necks, and in the loop each places a 
small stick; these are next turned in opposite directions, so 
ac to make a firm twist in the string (Pl. XIII.). The hands 
are, at a given signal, removed from the sticks, which imme- 
diately commence to revolve (assisted by the resistance 
exerted by each child pressing backwards), and finally get 
shot out amongst the surrounding playmates, who thus find 
themselves “ struck.”’ 
Objects and Phenomena of Nature—Imitated by finger- 
prints, sand-pictures, dc.—Next to ‘“cratch-cradle,’” the 
most general perhaps of all this particular group of imitative 
games is the drawing of different animal and bird tracks, 
&c., in the smoothed sand, by means of the fingers, finger- 
Hagia palms, small sticks, ve After making several of these 
artificial tracks, I have seen the natives in the Boulia dis 
trict finish up with a European boot-print, making it about 
10 or 12 inches in length, and bursting out laughing at its 
ludicrous size. Even in the delineation of such apparently 
simple things as an animal’s track, a good deal of art and 
ingenuity is brought into execution. I have not met with 
any roek-gravings, though in Glenormiston country, out on 
the Toko Ranges, I was informed by J. Coghlan in 1895 
that up in one of the caves he came across a circle of about 
18 inches diameter cut pretty accurately in a piece of solid 
rock. It may be mentioned here that the representation of 
a circle is only met with on weapons, &c., coming from and 
to the west of the Upper Georgina districts. Wooden grav- 
mgs are to be seen on several of the western district imple- 
ments, e.g., boomerangs; they are executed by means of an 
opossum or kangaroo tooth fixed into a handle. 
Objects and Phenomena of Nature—Imitated with Pig- 
ments.—Rock-paintings are met with in many districts 
throughout North Queensland, and, were systematic search 
to be made, would probably be found to be of more common 
occurrence than is usually supposed. I know of their exist- 
ence at Clack Island, Cooktown, the Bloomfield, on the 
Palmer, at Hughenden, Mackinlay, Cloncurry, &c. 
The first mentioned locality has a peculiar interest at- 
tached to it, in that the paintings here were described in 
