CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XV. — Death and Burial : putting old people to death, suicide, 

 burial, cremation, wakes, death and funeral of a chief, 

 relics, spirits appearing, mourning, eating of human 

 flesh ... ... ... ... 62 



CHAPTER XVI. — Avenging of Death : finding out the spell-thrower, modes 

 of destroying him, pseaet pseEets, executioner's club, 

 revenge a sacred duty ... ... ... 68 



CHAPTER XVII. — Great Meetings : summons, preliminaries, message-stick, 

 test-message, messengers, how distinguished, Weeratt 

 Kuuyuut hears of Buckley, public executioner, 

 Pundeet Puulatong, accu.sations, satisfaction for 

 private wrongs, public wrongs, wild blacks, quarrels 

 between tribes, tournament, trading, necessity to 

 attend meetings, drives of game ... ... 72 



CHAPTER XVIII. — Amusements : music, songs, korroborse, gala dress, 

 ornamental cicatrices, nose ornaments, dancing, 

 clowns, stalking the emu, wrestling, football, spear- 

 throwing, toy -boomerang, \vufe whuuitch ... 80 



CHAPTER XIX. — "Weapons : spear, spear-thrower, light .shield, liangle and 



heavy shield, clubs and boomerangs ... ... 87 



CHAPTEPi XX. — Animals : dingo, kangaroo, opossum, wombat, na,tive bear, 

 emu, extinct large bii'd, turkey bustard, gigantic 

 crane, water fowl, eagles, fish, eel-fishing, crayfish, etc.; 

 snakes, stories of boas ... ... ... 89 



CHAPTER XXI. — Meteorology, Astronomy, etc. : signs of weather, rain- 

 making, astronomical knowledge, list of heavenly 

 bodies, earthquakes, volcanoes ... ... 98 



CHAPTER XXII. — Native Mounds : their origin, sometimes used for burial 103 



CHAPTER XXIII.— Anecdotes ; the first white man, the first ship, the first 

 bullock, the first formation of water-holes, the tortoise 

 and the snake, the blue heron, the native companion 

 and the emu, the bunyip, the ghost, the meteor, 

 Buckley's widow ... ... ••• 105 



CONVEYANCE, by Principal Chiefs to John Batman, of 100,000 Acres 



OF Land, between Geelong and Queenscliff ... 112 



VOCABULARIES. — Words ; Animals ; Relationships ; Names op Places ; 

 Grammar and Sentences ; Numerals, cardinal and 

 ordinal ... ... ... •■• i 



NOTES TO Chapters XL, XII., XIIL, and XIV., by J. D. ... ... ci 



NOTE — Reports of Government Inspectors of Aboriginal Schools ... ciii 



