MURRUMBIDGEE, LOWER LACHLAN, AND LOWER DARLING. 63 
smallest. 
CompuTinac NUMBERS. 
After getting beyond twenty, or at most thirty in numbers, they 
me very hazy, and to get themselves out of the fog they say, 
co co (many) which may mean ten, or five hundred, or in fact any 
other quantity, and there are not any means short of actual inves- 
igation whereby it is possible to know whether the greater or lesser 
number is meant. 
Lack or CoMPARISON. 
The entire absence of this organ in the aboriginal cranium tends 
materially to the creation of the above difficulty, as, for example, 
ask an aboriginal which one of two flocks of ducks is the largest, 
and his reply will be politula co co (they are both large), and this 
reply will be given, or one similarly lucid, in every other matter 
of comparison which may come under observation, whether of 
numbers or quality, only in the latter case the noun talko (good) 
will be substituted for co co. 
RP. 
Laarp is the excrement of a small green beetle wherein the 
larva thereof is deposited. At certain times these insects congre- 
gate in myriads, and make their deposits on the young mallee scrub 
shoots which have sprung up after a previous season's bush fire. 
* . 
e aborigines are not by any means bad observers of natural history, 
Pees they emphatically hold that Joardiigial generation is altogether distinct 
nek of Bd other genus of mammals; that there is pre any — ba 
ion un f he pouch can 
termed such : the jirst appearance of the young trom po th 
Velie cave an ) = 0 Ab tree: 
rina = , en the opening of the marsupe 18 80 : 
vinkany of even the point of -. pen-holder would be all ee and 
: harat ey found on the nipple when See aaa or mance 
occasion, es cae indeed has come under my own observa’ 
