NOTES S45 



it will have the right to roam and hunt." * The latest and most 

 authorised inquirers into the laws and customs of the Australian 

 blacks, Messrs. Baldwin Spencer and Gillen, state that " every 

 local group is regarded as owning collectively the locality in 

 which lies its Ematulunga.''^ The boundaries of the locality, 

 they add, are well-known, and if its actual occupants die out, 

 a neighbouring group may enter in and possess, provided they 

 belong to the same ' class.' With the advent of the white man, 

 the food-supply of the black is restricted, for the white man 

 hunts and kills his kangaroos and emus. " In many cases he is 

 warned off water-holes which are the centres of his best hunting- 

 grounds, and to which he has been accustomed to resort during 

 the performance of his sacred ceremonies."! 



CHAPTER XXXII 



THE BREEDEE 



An account of the origin of Australian breeds is given in 

 Hawkesworth's Australian Sheep and Wool. 



* Frazek, Totemism and Exogamy, i. 538. 

 ■j" Native Tribes of Central Australia, p. 60. 



