NOTES ON SOME NATIVE TRIBES OF AUSTRALIA. V3 
same result. The sex of the infant is determined by that 
of the spirit who enters the woman’s body.’ Mr. Schurmann, 
in 1846, reported the same belief among the tribes about 
Port Lincoln, more than 350 miles by land, via Port 
Augusta, from Adelaide.’ 
On the Daly River, in the Northern Territory, Rev. 
Donald McKillop reports that souls are shut up in hills. 
Daly River is twenty-one degrees of latitude distant from 
Adelaide, which shows the wide geographic range ‘of the 
native belief in reincarnation. He says:—‘'A few miles 
from where we live, and not far from the river (Daly), 
there is a hill, called in the native language ‘ Alalk-yinga,’ 
that is ‘‘the place of children.’’ The natives believe that 
the souls of future children—or perhaps the children, bodies 
and souls—are shut up there, They are under the care of 
one old man. He has to see that they do not escape, and 
to supply them with water. This he does by means of an 
underground communication with the river about a mile 
away. The range, of which the hill. in question is the last 
one, runs right to the river. When a child is to be born, 
this old man sees to the business.”’ 
Mr. G. W. Earl, when among the natives of Coburg 
Peninsula, in the extreme north of Australia, in 1846, 
stated that “‘ the spirits of the dead are recognised in the 
strangers who visit their country.’* Coburg Peninsula, 
where Mr. Har! observed the belief in reincarnation, and 
Port Lincoln, where Mr. Schurmann, in the same year, 
reported a similar belief, are separated by 24 degrees of 
latitude, or about 1,500 miles. 
When residing at Perth, Western Australia, in 1842, Mr. 
G. F. Moore reported that the word ‘djandga’ signified 
? Folklore, Manners, etc., S. A. Aborigines, (1879), p. 88. 
? Reprinted in Native Tribes of South Australia, (1879), p. 235. 
3 Trans. Roy. Soc. S. A., (Adelaide, 1894), xvit., 262. 
* Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc., (London, 1846), xv1., 241. 
H—Noyv. 7, 1906. 
