Of the Aborigines inhabiting the Great Lacustrine 
and Riverine Depression of the Lower Murray, 
Lower Murrumbidgee, Lower Lachlan, and Lower 
Darling. 
By Perer BeEveripcr. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 6 June, 1883.] 
In commencing this paper, I may premise that the whole of the 
information herein set down has been gained by my own observa- 
tion ; and, moreover, the greater portion of it was obtained before 
the aborigines became sophisticated by contact with Europeans 
the Litchy Litchy, the Darty Darty, and the Yairy Yairy tribes. 
Each tribal name being the negative of the dialect spoken, and 
when I say that these dialects are as distinct from each other 
as are their negatives, philologists can readily imagine what an 
insurmountable task it would be to endeavour to reduce these 
dialects to a written language, with the view to its universal 
application. To obviate the difficulties which would naturally 
arise from the diversity of dialects, in their tribal and commercial 
communications (even the Australian tribes have commercial 
tribes within a radius of 150 miles. The persons of these officials 
are held sacred, even by tribes which are at feud with their own ; 
they therefore negotiate all matters of barter and tribal policy— 
aS & consequence they are kept pretty constantly on the move. 
Singular to say, these Vgalla Wattows are, without exception, all 
are all small, very wiry and attenuated,—their constant travelling 
pea short commons on their many tribal missions not being con- 
ucive to the making of flesh. 
