78 MATHEWS—SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. [Jan. 19, 
Then in manuscript is written on the copy fac-similed in the 
Johnson Orderly Book: 
Attest : Chas. Thomson, Sec’y. | A True Copy | John Hancock, 
Presid’t. | 
The colophon is: 
Baltimore, in Maryland: Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard | 
A very valuable bibliography of the literature pertaining to the 
Declaration, including its signers, signing and promulgation, pre- 
pared by Mr. Wilberforce Eames, the accomplished Librarian of the 
Lenox Library, is to be found in the Mew York Public Library 
Bulletin, Vol. i, December, 1897, pp. 351, 352- 
DIVISIONS OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. 
WITH MAP. 
(Plate VI.) 
BY R. H. MATHEWS, L.S. 
(Read January 19, 1900.) 
The territory dealt with in the following pages comprises approxi- 
mately that part of the province of South Australia situated east of 
the 132d meridian of longitude and south of the 24th parallel of 
latitude, but is more particularly delineated on the accompanying 
map. All the native tribes within this immense region are divided 
into two intermarrying phratries, with the exception of some tribes 
on the Murray river and Yorke’s peninsula, among whom no well- 
defined divisional system has been reported. 
I shall endeavor in this article to determine the boundaries of 
the country occupied by certain aggregates of tribes possessing the 
same divisional names and practicing similar initiatory rites, which 
it is proposed to denominate nations, following the method adopted 
by me in showing the distribution of the native tribes of New 
South Wales,’ Victoria? and Queensland.* A map is added, on 
1 Proc. AMER. PHILOs. Soc. PHILADA., xxxvii, 54-73, Plate v. 
2 American Anthropologist, Washington, xi, 325-343, Plate v. 
3 Proc. AMER. PHILOs. Soc. PHILADA., xxxvii, 327-336, Plate xiii, 
