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his weapons, because that would break the body to pieces, 

 but to jump upon it with his feet. Being willing to make 

 amends to his old mother-in-law for his bad behaviour in 

 letting her fall from the rock, he came stealthily up to the 

 heap of rubbish and gave one bound upon the centre of it. 

 As expected, he went flop into the water, and the monster 

 at the bottom caught hold of his feet and drowned him. 



Thattyukul's uncle, Kulnapittyik, went in quest of him, 

 and having tracked him to the pond, put in his long arms 

 and pulled the body out on the bank. He was a great con- 

 jurer and succeeded in bringing his nephew to life again. 

 After a while they both went away to the sky, where 

 Thattyukul became a Aqnilae ; his uncle was apotheosised 

 as « Capricorni, and his mother-in-law, Yerretgurk, was 

 transformed into <>■ Eridani. 



Sociology of the Tribes of Western Victoria. 

 Within substantially the same region outlined in my 

 account of the Dolgarrity ceremony, infra, the people are 

 bisected, primarily, into two phratries, called Gurogity and 

 Gainaty; the feminine forms of these being Gurogigurk and 

 Gamatygurk respectively. 1 Each phratry is again divided 

 into what may be distinguished, provisionally, by the name 

 of "clans" or "castes," because they are not so well 

 defined as the "sections " of the Ngeumba tribes treated 

 in earlier pages. The names of the clans are taken in some 

 instances from animals, and in others from inanimate 

 nature, Attached to each of these clans are lists of totems, 

 consisting of animals, plants, the heavenly bodies, the 

 elements, and so on. In other words, all creation, animate 

 and inanimate, is divided between Gurogity and Gumaty. 



1 Compare with my description of the " Group Divisions of the Barkunjee 

 Tribes," who adjoin the people herein dealt with on the north. — Journ. 

 Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. xxxn., pp. 211 -255, with map of their terri- 

 tory. The Sociology of the Wiradjuri Tribes is given by me in Journ. 

 Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. xxxi., pp. 171 - 176. 



