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Gunditi mangaroo mangoralle 
Illa kuta dilkunndalle ; 
Gunngudda gudanne innandaallé 
Tchunatche péré amanme amanni 
Kurerre ami imanne kaditi imanni 
Kalingu wiginnti wigiliunburne alunma giraitchere 
Munda giraitcheri manda ngunnzi wanapale 
Alunma allaitcheritcheri jadunn burari madunn burbari 
Aiyumba umbi madata dadi. 
The operation of sub-incision (4 kallokundana”) takes place 
subsequent to that of circumcision. The urethra is slit down- 
wards from the glans with a sharp splinter of flint. Hot ashes 
are thrown over the wound, which is later treated with emu 
grease. I was unable to elicit any reason for this mutilation. 
On questioning through an interpreter, the general reply was 
that the population is thereby not checked; it is merely a 
custom handed down by their ancestors, and about which even 
the native himself knows little or nothing. 
Healing of the Sick.—The custom of bleeding from a vein of 
the forearm* at the bend of the elbow, known as “ marrepa,” 
was noted at least for the Karkurrerra Tribe. It seems to 
be mainly adopted in cases of sickness. The blood, which is 
collected in a water vessel (* mika "), being both smeared over the 
painful part of the sick man's body and given him to drink. 
As a result of the operation many natives bear small scars 
at the site of puncture of the forearm. 
As regards other methods of healing the sick, considerable 
faith is attached to the magic influence supposed to be exerted 
over the affected part of the body by various inert objects when 
in the hands of the so-called medicine man or “nangarri.” 
In this connection the “ darreke ” receives most attention. This 
instrument or rod is made from the bone of the leg or arm of a 
dead man. Touching the sick man with the “ darreke,” the 
*  nangarri " imitates the dull, half-guttural call of the emu, and 
the sufferer considers himself convalescent. 
In a somewhat similar way the obsidian bombs,} which are 
known as “pandólle” or “kaleya-korru” (emu-eye), are employed. 
For internal complaints of the stomach a process of. fumigation 
is resorted to. The invalid is made to rest over a smouldering 
fire by supporting himself on elbows and knees, in order to 
* See also Spencer and Gillen : The Native Tribes of Central Australia, 
page 464 ; and Stirling: Anthrop. Horn Exped., page 181. 
t Spencer and Gillen, op. cit , report the ** medicine man to assume the 
form of an eagle hawk." 
+ In Tison and Howitt's * Kamilaroi and Kurnai? rounded (generally 
black) pebbles are mentioned, which are supposed to be of general magie 
power.—Page 251. Very likely these pebbles are obsidian bombs. 
