34 THE ABORIGINES OF THE LOWER MURRAY, LOWER 
will be acc ed by one of her own sex into the part of the 
bush selected for the interesting event ; but this is merely for 
taking the chill off the water. When this essential has been 
satisfactorily concluded, she rolls it up in her cloak, and walks off 
and pays no particular heed. It frequently happens that a woman 
will be taken with the pains of labour during a trail from one 
place of encampment to another. When this occurs. she merely 
drops out of the line of march, and seeks the friendly shelter of 
some convenient bush, after which she picks up the trail again, 
and walks on to the new place of encampment, carrying her — 
latest progeny with her as though the penalty incurred by Eve — 
had not descended to her aboriginal sisterhood. 
_* The skin on the under , a8 well as a distance up the sides of — 
the feet and toes of the abitieties is as hard ant sth aehy P this foe 3 
applies, as in fact, the whole of this paper does, to the unsophisticatee 
