territory of the latter. Short comparative vocabularies of 

 four tribes are appended. 



The Larrtkiya and W o(i(ut are, so far as my observation 

 went/'' friendly with one another, and tribal intermarriage 

 is not infrequent. 



Amongst the Dinekii/d, given that a man marries the 

 daughter of his mother's sister — the husband of this (his 

 aunt) is unnya to him, she being nr/allinc/ to him, and hciUe- 

 (lik to his vmn/r/. The daughter of his ncjalling then becomes 

 his halledik, and he is ngau to her. If b}^ the union of unnya 

 and halledik the offspring is a female, she is idlmilrruk to the 

 former and ngalh- to the latter. This idlmilrruk becomes the 

 property of the corresponding male offspring of his sister, 

 and is to him nugganyi; idlmilrruk of iinnya thereby becom- 

 ing licdleddi of iinnya's nugganyi. The female offspring of 

 this union is aUitmit to unnya, and may be given to the cor- 

 responding offspring of the male child of the nugganyi'' s sis- 

 ter, f 



According to the legends of the Larrekiya it happened 

 many years ago that a baby boy rose suddenly from the 

 ground out of the burrow of a bandicoot (Ferameles sp.). 

 He was seen by the people of the Larrekiya, who invited him 

 to come to their camp, but he refused. Some time after, 

 when he had become a man, they again met him. Again he 

 was asked to join the Larrekiya men in camp, but once more 

 he declined. Thereupon the men became angry, and dragged 

 him to a waterhole, and threw him into it. The stranger 

 immediately sank, and five bubbles of air arose to the sur- 

 face as he disappeared. The men sat down and watched the 

 water, when suddenly the face of the man reappeared. The 

 Larrekiya hurled a spear at him, and he was killed, because 

 he had no father and no mother, but was an accomplice of 

 the evil spirit, who, it is asserted by the old men of the 

 Wogait, makes a big fire, from which he takes an infant and 

 places it at night in the womb of a lubra, who must then 

 give birth to the child. 



In the ordinary course of events, if a man, when out 

 hunting, kills an animal or collects any other article of diet, 

 he gives it to his gin, who must eat it, believing that the re- 

 spective object brings about the successful birth of a picca- 

 niny. 



* C/., " . . . the Wag gait, whom both the LdrralcVa 

 and Airdrra detest . . ." T. A. Parkhouse : Austr. Assoc. 

 Adv. Science, vol. vi, 1895, p. 638. 



t Parkhouse explains this apparent marriiage within the 

 blood-tie, by stating that the relationship is not so close, the 

 line of descent only and not the number of degrees being indi- 

 cated : \ rstr. Assoc. Adv. Science, vol. vi., 1895, p. 641. 



