ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND VICTORIA. 305 



1899 I also published the sociology of some tribes onSturt's 

 Creek, Ord and Fitzroy Rivers, Western Australia, which 

 was the first time the eight-section system had ever been 

 reported in that State. 1 That article was followed by 

 another in 1900, " defining the geographic limits of that 

 portion of Australia which is occupied by aggregations of 

 tribes distinguished by having eight intermarrying sections 

 in their social structure." Moreover, among the tribes 

 adopting the " eight-section system " just referred to, in 

 Queensland, the Northern Territory, and in Western Aus- 

 tralia, I was the first to observe and publish the marriages 

 which are provisionally distinguished as "alternative," 

 "rare," and "exceptional." 8 



In a communication to the Anthropological Society of 

 Paris, in 1901, when referring to the different systems of 

 Australian sociology, I stated : " Mais qu'il existe deux, 

 ou quatre, ou huit divisions de toute la communaute, les 

 principes fondamontaux qui reglent les mariages entre les 

 divisions du groupe, et 1' ordre de succession de la posterite 

 sont identiques en tout." 



Language of Mothers-in-Law. 

 Throughout the central and south-western districts of 

 Victoria, and in the south-eastern corner of South Australia 

 there is a hybrid tongue or jargon in use, comprising a 

 short code of words, by means of which a mother-in-law 

 can carry on a limited conversation in the presence of her 

 son-in-law, respecting some of the events of daily life. I 

 observed jargons of this kind among the Woiwurru, Bun- 

 wurru, Wuddyawurru, Thaguwurru, Tyapwurru, Dhauhurt- 



1 Op. tit., p. 112. 



2 " Wumby 'a Organisation of the Australian Aborigines/' American 

 Anthropologist, Vol. n., N.S., pp. 494 -501, with map. 



3 American Anthropologist, Vol. u., N.S., (1900), pp. 494 - 501 ; Queens- 

 land Geographical Journal, Vol. xvi., (1901), pp, 69-90. 



4 " Organisation Sociale des Tribus Aborigines de F Australie," Bull. 

 Soc. d' Anthrop. de Paris, Tome n., Serie 5, pp. 415 - 419. 



T— Oct. 5, 1904. 



