114 R. H. MATHEWS. 
have subsequently to attend the fuller ceremonial of the Keeparra. 
Among the tribes inhabiting the country between the Clarence 
River and Point Danger, including the area watered by the 
Richmond and other rivers, the initiation ceremonies are known — 
as the Wandarral, which I have described in a paper contributed 
to the Royal Society of Victoria.’ 
It will be seen, therefore, in the various papers contributed to 
different learned institutions, on the Bora, the Burbung, the 
Bunan, the Keeparra, the Wandarral, and the subsidiary cere- 
monies connected with them, that I have given tolerably compre- 
hensive descriptions of the types of initiation ceremonies practised 
by a number of large and important tribes occupying about three 
fourths of the total surface of New South Wales, and reaching 
some distance into Queensland. This vast extent of country is 
comprised approximately within the following limits, namely, from 
Twofold Bay westerly to Moulamein in the county of Wakool ; 
thence northerly to Barringun in the county of Culgoa; thence 
easterly to the Pacific Ocean, and thence by the sea coast back to_ 
the starting point at Twofold Bay. <A reference to the map of 
New South Wales will enable the reader more thoroughly to 
understand this description. 
The Main Camp and Burbung Ground.—The site for the cele- 
bration of the Burbung ceremonies is usually chosen in some part 
of the tribal territory where water and fuel are plentiful, and 
where there is a sufficient supply of game to meet the food require-_ 
ments of all the tribes who are expected to be present from other 
districts. The people who belong to the district in which the 
Burbung is to take place, whom I shall call the local tribe, are of 
course the first to arrive on the ground and erect their camp. The 
other tribes who arrive later, take up their position around the 
camp of the local mob, each in the direction of the district they 
have come from. 
1 The Wandarral of the Clarence and Richmond River Tribes.” —Proe- 
Roy. Soc. Victoria, x., N.S., 29 - 42. 
