46 THE ABORIGINES OF THE LOWER MURRAY, LOWER 
remain, for the twofold purpose of being out of the way, and to 
make fires at which to cook some of the game they are about to 
e. 
Four of the old men then go off with the net to the point on 
the lagoon where they purpose fixing it. It is here stretched 
the lagoon, following its sinuosities very closely. Should it chance, 
however, as it frequently does at those times, that the birds wis 
to leave that lagoon for another in the vicinity, one of the 
aborigines in the trees nearest to the point from which they wish 
amid an abundance of pleasurable ejaculations and much tongue 
elucking from the women and chi ren, who gloat over the fat, 
plump birds as they are drawn from the net. Hundreds and 
are engaged brooding, or in guarding and feeding their young. 
= = Been known to abound in fish, and perhaps not more : 
han waist deep, is chosen as the scene of ser scare, i 2 
_When the aborigines have arrived at the chosen spot, those who 
are about to work the net tie Pieces of calcined clay, weighing 
