70 THE ABORIGINES OF THE LOWER MURRAY, LOWER 
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omitted to use his paddle or to have used it carelessly, the 
igilant Baangal pounces upon the unhidden feces as a miser 
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gradual combustion the chaunt is c ued, sometimes low 
weak child’s wail heard a considerable distance off, and again 
swelling up into the sonorous tones trong man’s agony, yet 
never losing its weird monotony. The chaunt consists of sound 
ctim ceased. 
Should the Baangal, however, wish to prolong the dyi 
agonies of his foe, he merely burns a small portion of the roll 
nightly, chaunting his incantation during the process ; and should 
months pass ere the roll is totally burned, so long will the torture 
of his victim continue. 
All aboriginal deaths, unless such as are caused by violence 
alone, and indeed every ailment by which they are stricken from 
time to time as well, are attributed to the malign powers possessed 
by hostile Baangals, and all the arguments and ridicule in creation 
will not cause them to alter their belief one iota. : 
When discussing the matter with them, and to prove the 1m- 
posture practised on them by their Baangals, I have offered 
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ing made slightly ill would be proof to me perfectly conclusive 
that their Baangals were all they claimed them to be. 
To them this offer of mine seemed so ridiculously absurd, they 
merely laughed at me, saying,—Bumbuma wirrumpo 
