928 THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 
munities, aving therefore thus stated a few facts to show 
the conditions under which the mwrri continues to live, I pass 
on 
Ill.—Tue periop or Orv AGE. 
by the hand, as carefully and patiently as a mother leads her 
child ; if his guides were offered food, Boko received his due share; 
even the glass of rum was held to his lips that he too might 
have his mouthful of it. From their earliest years the young 
people of the tribe are taught to respect the old, and one of the 
duties laid upon the novice in his instruction at the Bora 
requires him when a successful hunter to bring the best of his 
An old person, when no longer able to follow the camp . ad 
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suitable spot in charge of one or two others ; if a woman, at ‘ 
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man, y 
and inter the body or other 
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The blacks bury in any soft ground which may vue vig 
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brought from the distance of many miles. “ My bean he 
‘ wishes : was rearol 
need not compare with this similar practices and desires 1 all age 
‘Wherever a tribe does not inter the dead, the body pry ae 
wrapped in two sheets of bark, which are secured with ai ‘be 
kurrajong;* it is then placed in a hollow tree. If interment 
 * A native tree with very tough twigs.. 
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