30 HISTORY OF 



All great contests are decided, when these 

 persons of the Cam-mer-ray tribe are present. 



- Yet all this respect, the other inhabitants pay 

 to those of Cam-mer-ray, seems to arise from 

 their vast superiority of numbers ; and this is not 

 the only part of the world where numbers have 

 gained- power over few; but seldom are they 

 llke^he Cam-mer-ray tribe content, with the 

 tribute of a single tooth from each of the van- 

 squished. J 



RELIGION. 



Most countries have a religion of some 

 kind, but the inhabitants of New South 

 Wales have naturally none; they have no ob- 

 ject on their minds that impels them to good 

 actions or deters them from bad ; they have aeon- 

 fused idea of a future state, but it by no means 

 affects their actions. Some think they go over the 

 great water, meaning the sea, when they die, and 

 others expect to go to the skies where they came 

 from, and that in the shape of little children, in 

 which shape they will re-appear in this world at 

 some future time. That they well know the differ- 

 ence between right and wrong, as far as concerns 

 this world, is evident, for if any body does them 

 an injury the exclaim wee-re (bad) ; but if any 

 person does them a service bood-jer-re (good). 

 This proves they not only understand a differ- 

 ence, but have words to express it. 



