THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 227 
Thus it is that the chiefs administer the affairs of the tribe and 
maintain the order of the community. Those whom they govern 
hold them in the highest estimation. But other classes of men of 
get influence in the tribe are the koradjies or “doctors,” and the 
‘wizards 
have no share in the government, although a chief, if he is so 
= own at him and into him some days before by the 
*volent spirit of some blackfellow, whose grave he passed ; or 
4 boy has his foot burned ; the Koradjie sucks ound 
&° them to the sick man, who prepares them acco 
Vater 2» 4nd during this time he shouts for pain; drinks 0 
sinng te ™PBlied to him and a profuse sweat is induced. The 
“The ws, but sometimes the patient dies from er, : 
munis Sepp are a more dangerous and dreaded class of I 
n the doctors. They are believed to gies sickn' 
