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THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 215 
washes away the badge of darkness and evil and assumes 
the livery of the children of light. The other men, 
whose mottled colour is a confession of mingled g 
and evil in their lives, also emerge new men once more, 
purified and devoted anew to the service of the good, and 
freed from the power of the ev 
This felt subjection to unseen 2 evil and aspiration for 
deliverance from it, in the minds of our native races, is 
with a Sosa were distributed throughout 
bare, sometimes in union with animate objects 
nature and up re oe the pane of religious 
nites such as the Bora: for, the due observance of these, 
Tepeated from time to e, ; while at least, 
the faithful. Thus, then, I eer the red colour of the 
athe Pion Turramulan, a avails deity. ~“Turra- 
Mulan is mediator for all the operations a a 
man, and from man to Baiamai.” ‘ Women must no 
2 “ ae have ag seen that the Yain tribe make an image 
ulun and set it up at their Boras. In the 
™ th ie 
eet bo ‘ee ceremony of the Bora oy" pret ud in 
eet? ‘Ook, is called Tirricoty, and 18 © made ™m 
shape of a fish ; the magic wand. that Ridley mentions 
