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Ballaroke marries Ngotak, and the children are Ngotak 

 Ballaroke „ Noganyuk, „ ,, Noganyuk 



Tdondarup „ Ballaroke, „ „ Ballaroke 



Ngotak „ Ballarokej Nagarnook and Noganyuk 



Noganyuk „ Ngotak and Tdondarup. 1 



In an official report on the "Habits and Customs of the 

 Aboriginal Inhabitants of West Australia," printed at Perth in 

 1871, p. 21, Bishop Salvado gives the names of six classes prevalent 

 in the tribes at the Catholic Mission Station at New Norcia, in 

 the Victoria district, eighty-two miles northerly from Perth. The 

 names of the classes which each one of the others may marry, and 

 also the classes into which they may not marry, are stated, but 

 unfortunately the classes to which the children belong are not 

 given. The information supplied by Salvado may be tabulated 

 thus : — 



Class Could Marry Could not Marry 



rp. j Palarop, Jiragiock Tirarop, Mondorop 



" | N-ocognok Tondorop 



■vj- , j Palarop, Tondorop 



& { Tirarop, Mondorop 



N-ocognok 

 Jiragiock 



p , j Tondorop, Mondorop Palarop 



P ( N-ocognok, Tirarop Jiragiok 



rp , j Palarop, N-ocognok Tondorop 



P { Jiragiok, Mondorop Tirarop 



-j , j Jiragiock, Tondorop Mondorop 



P | N-ocognok, Palarop Tirarop 



y. . , j Tirarop, Mondorop Palarop, N-ocognok 



| Tondorop Jiragiok 



The information supplied by Sir George Grey, and by Bishop 

 Salvado, is very meagre and unsatisfactory. I trust that if this 

 article of mine should be read by any gentlemen residing in either 

 of the districts referred to, that they will endeavour to gather 



1 Two Exped. N.W. and W. Australia, (1841) Vol. n., pp. 225, and 228. 



