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food for itself. The father instructs it in the art of 

 digging for the larvae of insects and grubs. He teaches 

 it also how to catch fish, throw the boomerang and 

 the toy spear. 



Children are never chastised. They are simply kept 

 under control, so far as they are controlled at all, by 

 superstitious dread. Such and such things, they are 

 told, will happen if they do so and so. 



The first-born child, if not destroyed, is named after 

 the parent, father or mother, as the case may be. 

 After that, children are named after some animal 

 which may happen near at the time kangaroo, emu, 

 dog, rat, or the like ; or perhaps after something in 

 the immediate locality of its birth tree, pond, or 

 lake. 



A native was named Ber-uke (kangaroo-rat), one of 

 these animals having crossed the floor of the hut 

 about the time of his birth. 



Poleeorong (cherry-tree) was so named because he 

 was born under a cherry-tree. Weing-paru (fire and 

 water), because the hut took fire, which was extin- 

 guished by water. 



Girls are often named after flowers. People often 

 exchange names ; not, however, until they have been 

 permitted to do so by the great council. 



When one dies, his name is not mentioned while the 



