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On account of the section name descending through the 

 women, it would have been quite as well, or perhaps better, 

 to have traced Choolum's pedigree back through his mother's 

 father, instead of through his father's father. Looking at 

 Table L, we see that Neomarum is the mother of Ohoolum. 

 Examination of that table will show us that Neomarum's 

 "1st father" is Ohooralum; her "2nd father" is Ohingulum; 

 her "3rd father" is Ohoolum; and her "4th father" is 

 Cheenum. Then Ohoolum No. 1 would marry his mother's 

 "1st father's" sister's daughter's daughter, Mngulum, as 

 his "1st wife." Or he marries his mother's "1st father's" 

 sister's son's daughter, Neenum,as his "2nd wife" and so on. 



According to this arrangement, the normal marriages 

 would be those of a man's daughter's child with his sister's 

 daughter's child. Tables IV. and V. could be easily 

 amended, by a little transposition, for the purpose of show- 

 ing all the details in full. Among the Wongaibon and 

 Barkunjee tribes, described a few pages onward, if we follow 

 a man's genealogy through his mother, the normal marriage 

 would be that of a man's daughter's child with his sister's 

 daughter's child, and so on, the same as in the Wombaia 

 tribe. 



I have placed Ohoolum and Oheenum together as grand- 

 fathers in Table IV. My correspondents in the Northern 

 Territory several years ago informed me that these two 

 sections of men are very friendly amongst themselves, and 

 frequently marry into the same two sections of women, in 

 inverse order. 1 Moreover, referring back to Table I., we 

 observe that Ohoolum and Cheenum take their direct or 

 tabular wives from the same cycle of women. For similar 

 reasons I have placed Ohingulum and Ohooralum together 

 as grandfathers in Table V. 



1 This Journal, xxxiv., pp. 123, 129. 

 H— Dec. 6, 1905. 



