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Up to the present I cannot find any meaning attached to the 

 class names, though most of the tribal names have meanings. A 

 few of these will suffice — 



Ngaiu wonga (ngaiu, I; wonga, speech). 



Ngadha wonga (ugadha, I; wonga, speech). 



Bardu wonga (baidii, biood, blood-di inking ; or badu, no). 



Tenma (ten, dead). 



Jargurdi (jargurdi, netted bag made from spinifex fibre), 



Wajari (waji, no). 



Wirdinya (wirdi, ' no,' ' lie,' ' pearlshell '). 



Nyul nyul nganga (nyul-nyul, snake; nganga, speech). 



Barda nganga (barda, sea beach; nganga, speech). 



In the fear that my paper has even already become unusually 

 lengthy, I will not extend it further, and will, therefore, leave 

 the interesting social organization of the Southern Cross, 

 Northampton district, south-western, and southern tribes to some 

 future occasion. 



The Eucla division has not yet been touched by the inquiring 

 ethnological student, and I am, therefore, happy to say that I 

 leave for that area very shortly, and will remain a year partly 

 within and partly beyond the border of Western and South Aus- 

 tralia, where I shall obtain first-hand information. My adoption 

 into the Boorong division of the north, and the Manitchmat of the 

 bLuth and south-west is, I find, my passport into all tribes. 



As steamer communication with Eucla only takes place quar- 

 terly, I shall be practically out of civilization for the next year, 

 but I hope to do some good work in that time. 



I hope this paper has conveyed some little idea of the intensely 

 interesting subject of these Western aborigines, whom I have made 

 my special study during the past twelve years, and over whose 

 wonderful customs, laws, ceremonies, &c., I am even more enthu- 

 siastic now than when I began my investigations. The late Dr. 

 Andrew Lang was revising the History of the Native Tribes of 

 Western Australia, which I had compiled for the Government of 

 this State, and the book is, therefore, still in manuscript, as Dr. 

 Lang had not completed his revision when his lamented death 

 took place. The book was intended to have been published by the 

 Western Australian Government, but the question of expense 

 intervened, and the MS. has now been handed over to me to 

 publish. 



The MS. will have to be almost entirely reconstructed on lines 

 laid down by the late Dr. Lang, but I am pleased to say that 

 seme Oxford and Cambridge ethnologists have most kindly offered 

 to revise and edit the book, voluntarily offering their services on 

 the death of my learned friend and kindly helper. I hope within 

 the next year to be able to add to my MS. the social organization 

 of. the Eucla and Central divisions. 



