62 THE ABORIGINES OF THE LOWER MURRAY, LOWER 
gestation, whether of man or beast. T 
when they observe him bright and unclouded, looking calmly 
down on the tungie like a panoo mitian (small moon), 
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The aborigines do not possess any ceremonies or incantations 
wherewith to propitiate this birth-governing Worka Worka, even 
although they deem his influence all-powerful in making or 
marring the careers of the unborn. 
OF THE Szasons. 
The aborigines divide the year as Europeans do, that is, into 
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the brown tints which the ripening grasses assume, together with 
the flight of all fledgelings, and the abandonment for good of the 
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Weat (Autumn) is known by the cottony gossamer substance 
which floats about in the atmosphere during that period in this 
longer mere visions of the brain induced by partaking of 
quent as well as insufficient meals of very indigestible food. 
