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been met with before, and at a rock-shelter near a waterhole I 

 ■saw some rock paintings, which I sketched. They are simple, 

 but show a great freedom of hand ; particularly some rings inside 

 ■each other made with red ochre, which are very accurately 

 executed. These indications lead to the conjecture that the place 

 is frequently visited by natives. 



2'^rd June. — Soon after daybreak a blackfellow approached the 

 camp, announcing himself by lighting some spinifex tussocks as 

 he was coming along. He is an old man and very timid, and 

 like the otlier blacks, had the right central incisor knocked out, 

 was circumcised and liad many tattoo scars on liis chest. . . . 

 Our blackfellow Oid not follow us from camp. Evidently lie did 

 not wish to cross the boundary of his country. He said " white- 

 fellow ! whitefellow !," pointing towards the west, and seemed 

 frightened. He meant to say that there were blackfellows over 

 there, for it dawned upon us that he had confounded the terms, 

 and called us blackfellows and himself whitefellow. 



25</i ,hine (Camp 9). — The doctor brought the copy of a painting 

 of a wheel, and was of opinion that some large limbs that had 

 recently been cut from a gum tree and some pieces of bark for 

 water vessels had been cut with an iron tomahawk. If this sup- 

 position is correct, the blacks must at some time or other have 

 been in contact with white men, or found the cutting tool, what- 

 ever it may be, at some former explorer's camp and brought it a 

 long distance. 



26<A Jv,yw (Camp 12). — Soon after breakfast six blacks came to 

 our camp ; tln-ee of them young fellows who evidently had only 

 recently undergone tlie ceremony ©f circumcision. One of them, 

 a very young man, was particularly short but of firmly knit 

 physi<iue. The older ones had tlieir right central incisors knocked 

 •out, but not so the young ones. It seems, therefore, that this cere- 

 mony is only performed at a later age (perhaps when they are 

 about to get a wife ?). They all had scars about the chest and 

 most of them about the arms also. The doctor photographed 

 them in a group, also measured and examined them. He 

 tells me that all iiave the urethra slit, like those of the Everard 

 Range tribe. They seem to belong to a different tribe and are 

 not of such good physique as those met before, but fairly propor- 

 tionately built. Their language may be probably also different, but 

 they understood and use the word " papi," and other words in 

 use by the Everard Range tribe. 



Xst July (Camp 13). — I found a small rockhole with water in 

 a very secluded place and not easy to approach. The blacks had 

 marked the place about a chain below it by some white circles, 

 one of which was exactly like the well-known " Plim.sol Mark " 

 on ships, only that the central bar was vertical. » 



