416 L. HARGRAVE. 



leader could rest in peace, guarded, by some superstitious 

 dread, from the attacks of his followers. We know about 

 the pentalpha and magic circle of the old necromancers ; 

 and the, to us, idiotic folly of a raging foe not daring to 

 slay his deadly enemy when caught with his hand on a 

 church knocker or seated on a stone sanctuary chair. 



There are several hundred foot marks in the vicinity of 

 numerous camp marks. These tell the direction and dis- 

 tance of other camp marks. For instance, there are five 

 well-cut foot marks on Woollahra Point. They are in a 

 line S.E. by S., this bearing lands you on the camp mark 

 between Nelson's Bay and Bondi. Following the foot steps 

 N.W. by N. about 30 paces puts you on the Woollahra Point 

 camp mark. The four intervals between these five foot 

 steps average 3 ft. 3 ins. The intervals being of quite 

 abnormal length indicated that they are in no sense a 

 measure, and that it is the five foot steps that record the 

 distance. The vara =2*782 feet was the standard pace, 

 and the five foot steps mean that the camp mark to which 

 they refer was 5,000 vara distant =2*6345 miles. A re- 

 measurement of the distance shows it to be 2 miles 48 chains 

 = 2*6 miles. 



Gold ivas sought. The washing places in the creeks have 

 of course all disappeared, but there is one abandoned claim 

 of many that systematic search would disclose. At Dee 

 Why the spur north of the lagoon is crowned with boulders, 

 the eastern one is a mere shell, the next one to it has on 

 its western face, sheltered from the weather, six deep 

 vertical parallel grooves. The piece of stone between the 

 two northern grooves has been broken out for a sample. 

 The antiquity of the work is beyond dispute. Modern 

 miners do not prospect boulders on the top of eminences. 



The locality itself speaks. Deewhy. Mr. Surveyor Meehan 

 in his field book (Oat. No. 86) speaks of "Dy" Beach, the 



