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was situated in a dense scrub of sandalwood and coolabah. The 

 main camp was about half a-mile westerly from the town of Gun- 

 dabloui, the latter being on both sides of the Moonie River, from 

 whence water was obtained by the blacks for camp use. It is 

 the custom for that section of the community which called the 

 tribes together, to prepare the ground, and get everything ready 

 for the arrival of the various contingents. The locality is situated 

 in the country of the head-man who calls the assembly. — Anthr. 

 Jour., xiii., p. 440. 



Two circles had been formed on the ground, very much resem- 

 bling the rings seen at a circus (Plate 4, fig. 1). These circles were 

 cleared of all timber and grass, and carefully swept ; and the 

 surface of the ground within them levelled, and slightly hollowed 

 so as to obtain sufficient loose earth to form the outer walls, which 

 were about a foot high. The largest of the circles was about 

 seventy feet in diameter, most regular in shape, and in the centre 

 stood a pole about ten feet high, with a bunch of emu feathers 

 tied on top ; in the western wall of this enclosure an opening 

 about five feet in extent was left as an entrance. Around this 

 circle on all sides except the opening mentioned, was a bush fence 

 composed of a number of forks set in the ground, with rails from 

 one to the other, and against these rails bushes were laid. From 

 the opening referred to, an ordinary uncleared bush track ran 

 about S. 60° W. for about twenty-three chains, connecting with 

 another and smaller circle about fifteen yards in diameter. This 

 ring was not so perfect in shape as the other, and the w T alls were 

 roughly made ; there was, moreover, no opening left for the purpose 

 of ingress or egress, as in the other circle, but any one wishing to 

 enter it had to step over the wall. Near the centre of this circle 

 were two saplings which had been taken out of the ground by the 

 roots ; the branches were then cut level across, after which they 

 were fixed in the ground with their roots upward. Although the 

 surrounding country is level, the dense scrub prevented one circle 

 being seen from the other. 



