THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 199 
_ names for the numeral “one,” there is great sehen 
as in the an languages, but bular, ‘‘two,” 
from Cape River (Queensland) into New South “Wales, 
Victoria, South Australia, and even as far south as 
Bruné Island near Hobart. This last fact is rather 
remarkable, for, although I endeavoured for more than 
ten of New South Wales; for ‘ Bt 
mung-enna Sesame mug-u (Gringal) ; ; “foot,” lugg- 
ana* (Tasmania), tung-anai (Gringai); also wee, “ fire” 
(Kamina), wee-al- utta, ** red hot embers” (Tasmania), 
-na-leah, *“ fire” W. a); rim-utta, “hand” 
Tasmani 
(Tasmania) rima (Polynesia), ama (New Guinea). 
o eleven points are the main features of an argument by 
tea hich Twould maintain that our black people came originally 
Gian is oh of ie: Persian Gulf, and that they came to us 
__ But I pass on to the roper subject of this essay—the aboriginal 
ee ea 
satay th Wales, weighs my narrativ' os ee 
conversed, or communicated to me orally 0 
vig eke Eanast who have long been familiar with the ‘alee 
ah, condition of our native races. In order to proceed methodi- 
» IT shall first give a sketch of the tri ibal arrangements which 
: Til fa ifI were to describe the customs of each tribe separately, 
ls x € a narrative applicable to all ; but, wherever ead 
nee of usage exists in any parti among 
| Naseby, Maitland (for the 
a wa o yrallyn, : Gresford (for nat, 
e gentlemen have had an ” intimate acq 
re than thirty years. 
