NOTES ON SOME NATIVE TRIBES OF AUSTRALIA. 115 
through fare being £7, and the time occupied on the road 
ten days. Passengers by the coach find their own rations, 
a fresh supply of which can be had at the following 
stations en route, viz.:—Hamiiton Bore, Blood’s Creek, 
Horse-shoe Bend, and Alice Well. Passengers are allowed 
25 pounds weight of luggage, independently of their rations ; 
all over that weight is charged at the rate of six pence per 
pound. Leaving Oodnadatta in the coach, Alberga Creek 
is reached in 40 miles; 30 miles further brings us to 
Hamilton Bore; 36 miles more is Blood’s Creek and in 
another 30 miles we reach Charlotte Waters, 136 miles 
from Oodnadatta. From Charlotte Waters to Goyder’s 
Oreek is 29 miles; Old Crown Point is 25 more; another 
27 brings us to Horse-shoe Bend. From there to Depot 
Well is 13 miles, and in 14 more we reach Alice Well, 108 
miles from Charlotte Waters. From Alice Well to Frances 
Well is 22 miles; Deep Well is 27 more; Ooraminna is 
another 24 miles, and in 30 miles more we arrive at Alice 
Springs, 347 miles from Oodnadatta. 
I have given this short account of the journey to Alice 
Springs, in the hope of encouraging scientific men residing 
in any part of Australia, to go out among the aborigines, 
for the purpose of supplementing our knowledge of their 
dialects, beliefs, and customs generally. The expense of 
the trip would be comparatively trifling. The two black- 
fellows, ‘“‘Jimmy’’ and ‘‘ Warwick,’’ who acted as inter- 
preters to Messrs. Spencer and Gillen, are natives of the 
Lower Finke and Lindsay Rivers country, where they are 
usually employed on stations and otherwise. They can be 
heard of any time at Charlotte Waters. The tribe in which 
these men were born and brought up contains four sections 
in its social structure, namely, Panungka, Koomara, 
Parulla, and Bultara. 
A township called Stuart was laid out some 20 years ago 
about a mile and three-quarters south of Alice Springs 
