AGS. NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW HOLLAND. 
sco capapeta from time to time. On furt er oppor ns 
i thought afterwards. that Andy might, by his own reasoning, 
have asked what would become of the step-ladder which connects 
heaven and earth at the top of Mount Dallambangil if the sun 
was fixed and the earth revolved as I stated. oyma is 
ascribed the creation of the whole universe ; Breve they believe 
e self-created, and that he formed everything out es 
again asked to oa ae the creation of the great water and 
clouds, he replied that “Boyma made it, he believed,” adding 
significantly, and looking fixedly at me, that “he could not tell, 
nor any one else—(‘Bail me know’)—do you?” The sun, they 
believe is only the orb of light, and not the means of producing 
heat, or’ by the greater or leaned ecliptical altitude of the earth 
rodti ucing the shine ge of seasons. In endeavouring to un eceive 
my sable friend in this: too, I had the same difficulty as ia ve 
other instance of the Shit hs and sun’s motions. 
ridiculing our assertions that the sun was the cause of al hea 
he remarked that “if the sun makes the warm weather er 
in summer-time, what for not make the winter warm as it is 
every day ?” The influence which produces heat, in their ‘le 
accompanies the Pleiades (mangudia). When the mangudia a 
visible at a certain altitude above the horizon it is spring 
(begagewog). When it rises to its highest altitude, it is summel, 
i and upon this cluster of ‘stars sinking again to he 
the horizon in autumn, it is “domda.” In winter when t 
Pleiades are barely visible or lost to view altogether, 1 
winter (magur) and cold. The ordinary stars (miunga sali 
no kind of influence on the seasons, but simply the F 
The constellation Mungudia is retained by Bo 
ma near Ba ‘on 
during winter, in thea same way that they believe ee are 
(Bungal) is retained by God during the night, 
harvest by the position of the Pleiades.] The Latin 5 desig 
“a yer 
them vergilie, from their being first visible in the spring, : I 
bove notes comprise all that is pers eee g of W 
s I may gain more stiri 
; lve gain ; ; 
: aries like many oie delicate senses, being 12 saver ee 
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