502 PKOCEEDI^'GS OF SECTION F. 



Macdonnell Ranges Tribe. — Native name, " Quooitri," means "I 

 am going away." Signal made of dry grass. 



TtnnanC s Creek Tribe. — Native name, " Mydoocoolooungwan,'^ 

 meaning " Come up, we are camped here hunting." The signal is 

 only made when the natives are a short distance apart. In hunting, 

 when a kangaroo is sighted the hunter raises the signal and repeats 

 it during the chase. His comrades thus note the course taken and 

 go to his help, or a lubra wdl take a " koolamon " of water and 

 refresh him for the chase. The signal is also used as a warning of 

 the presence of an intruder — explorers, for instance. 



^^' Mr. Chas. Winnecke says of this pale signal that he has noted 

 invariably that it is raised when a blackfellow discovers the 

 presence of strangers and explorers, the smoke not lasting many 

 minutes ; generally being repeated at a little distance from the 

 first point. It is used as a small vanishing form of signal, pre- 

 sumably to inform friends in the immediate vicinity — members of 

 his own family or tribe — of the presence of the stranger. Keing 

 used when natives are watching intruders, the signals start up 

 in different directions and at different points, shifting to accord 

 with the position of the person watched. Mr. Winnecke says, " I 

 should term these warning signals." 



(5).— LARGE OR HE.WY COLUMN OF PALE-HUED SMOKE. 



Produced by the use of a large quantity of dry material, or pale- 

 smoke-producing fuel. A long distance signal. 



Powell's Creek Tribe. — This smoke is named " Ohbobo-boobah- 

 what-thung-gutto," and means ■' A friendly tribe is coming to 

 yabber." 



Barroiv Creek Tribe. — The meaning is "Blackfellow dead" 

 The fire is made on a sandhill. A large heap of grass is gathered, 

 with a long train leading away some distance for lighting the heap 

 by. When ready for lighting, the firing native turns his back on 

 the heap, lights the train, and then runs away without looking 

 back. This mode of lighting by a train at a distance with the 

 back turned is owing to the superstition that the dead may see 

 and recognise the native who fires the death-beacon, 



Macdonnell Ranges Tribe. — Native name of signal " Alkninka 

 quoo," meaning " Big light." Its message meaning is " Come at 

 once." Material used, dry grass. 



(C)— SLENDER COLUMN OF DARK (BLACK) SMOKE. 



PowelVs Creek Tribe. — Native name, " Hugullo," and indicates " A 

 messenger from another tribe come growl" (i.e.. with a complaint, 

 or threat of war). They make a similar smoke in reply, and send 



• Mr. Charles Winnecke, explorer, Adelaide. 



