THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 231 
oer the grave was comfortable, which he did by lying in it in 
position the body was to occupy. Some slight alterations were 
required, h 
=. > three or four did the same, some most viciously, while 
eno eames to think that a very little of that sort of thing was 
ugh; the howling continued all the while. Bark was now 
selves ey over the body, and the old men stretched them- 
them . full length on the ground and howled dreadfully. Oneof 
on lace got up and took a piece of bark which he placed 
might, I grave and stretched himself on it, erying with all his 
the fin then left them, nothing of the ceremony remaining but 
ing up of the grave.” 
him go 7 ce of the affection of the black—savage (can we call 
- Not be ') attended the burial of King Jackey. His mother could 
one ‘Induced to leave the spot ; she sat there refusing food until 
beside § she was found dead on the grave! She was uried 
the ola. 80m and not long after a little dog that had belonged to 
nage was also found dead on her grave. are facts. 
age, q »then, are the chief points of interest in connection withold 
»feath, and burial—the third and last head of my subject. 
hapa as thisessay has already swollen to unexpected dimen- 
will conclude with one or two specimens of aboriginal 
cc I believe, are entirely new. Our native races 
ve observers of the stars; as they sit or lie around the 
r night-fall, their gaze turns to the 
vault above, and there they see the likenesses of many 
Jo : y are conversant in their life— 
Oke te dancing a corroboree (Orion), and a group of aie 
ce—the 
Drha them (the Pleiades), making music to their dan 
away the rain-clouds. 
away the rain. 
lacks do this also when they are drivin 
hands together, and looking up pu 
255 eut. xiv. 1. 
of burial seems to be more honorable than another, for 
i others have been buried at the 
key was ed d up, others 
wrapped up in bark at fall length. 
