THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 207 
They now give him a new name,* which must not be revealed oy ws 
winitiated, and they hand to him a little bag of stringy-bark 
* one or more small white stones of crystal quartz ; this bag ae 
will always carry about his person, and the stones must not beshown 
_ tothe ala on pain of death.t This concludes the first part 
of the grea 
Rg or ten days and teach him the tribal lore by showing him 
their dances and their so ngs ; these he learns, especially one song 
of which T can tell nothing further than ~ it is important for the 
the great Creator, ft At night, dering this this period, the boombat is set 
by himself in secluded and darksome places, and, all around, the 
men make hideous noises, at which he must not betray the least 
‘Sin of fear. At some part of the ceremony he is shown a sac 
ae this Ridley says—‘ This old man Billy told me, as a great 
» What other blacks had withheld as a mystery too sacred to be 
disclosed toa white man, that ‘dharumbulum, a stick or wand, is 
* As to the Swed 
found out name, ‘‘ My father,” says a correspondent, ‘‘ sometim 
Wer it hat the name was, and would tease the men by pretending 0 “ed 
him awa; to the women ; when he did this they would get angry and chase 
| The ial la : 
forced, WS against the ge om of the mysteries were strictly en- 
| btained 3 fo years ago, some erds on the Upper Williams had 
this became kn a ye ear oy ag shown them to the gins. 
3 man, a great r, made 
3 ot the g .) Speech, declaring that the whites men wiki gat to death an 
hes Accordingly the blacks watched their vid anthent ty, killed the 
: of ca Separately, and feasted on their ner ag bls au Leen nr f with 
: ieee? rere clustered on the trees near by, eager to wl 
. White man’s retribution. 
instance of of ~ “ag Stand s dread of the white crystals comes from 
a oeality. Near e Barrin n a gin W as digging out a iarab root, 
y struck it hard, oie thei 
cut it up into . ee and used them oe 2 nnd 
S. e men saw pric sa _ aad 
gold, but the gin could not be pessumiet a too : many 
wi 
tere ; as afraid, she pce ta a Diggings were 
many years afterwards. 
root co capt hence io era a 
