116 R. H. MATHEWS. 
being nine feet long and four feet broad; the remaining one, 
which was opposite to where the mooroo or track entered, being 
ten feet by five feet. These mounds were built up by first laying 
on the ground a number of pine logs, about five or six feet in 
~ length, and covering them over with loose earth. These four 
mounds formed a quadrilateral, the side of which were nine, eleven, 
twelve, and eleven yards respectively. Approximately in the 
centre of this quadrilateral, a log of wood, with a fork on the 
upper end, was inserted perpendicularly in the ground, projecting 
‘above the surface about two and a half feet.! About six yards 
beyond the goombo a fence composed of forks and boughs was 
erected, about twenty yards long and four or five feet high, known 
by the native name of gareel or gheerang. 
The pathway, mooroo, from the Burbung to the Goombo passed 
over a black soil flat very lightly timbered, for the first half mile, 
and then entered a scrub of pine, box and undergrowth. At this 
point some saplings were bent over the track so as to form a kind 
of arch. From this point to the Goombo, a distance of fifteen ~ 
chains, was higher ground, and consisted of a reddish sandy clay, 
well suited for carving or raising figures on its surface. At the 
time of my visit all the figures on the ground had disappeared, 
and most of the marked trees had been rooted out and burnt, 
owing to the occupation of the country by the white people. 
Fortunately the ground for a few chains around the goombo had 
not been interfered with. 
I was accompanied by some of the old black-fellows who had 
attended the last Burbung held here, from whom I obtained the 
following description of it. On both sides of the pathway between 
the archway referred to and the Goombo, numerous devices and 
figures were formed on the ground. The outlines of some of them — 
1 In the Burbung ground at Bulgeraga Creek, there were two inverted 
stumps of agi inserted in the ground at the goombo, which were — 2 
smeared with human blood.—Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xxv., 301. See also 
«The Burbung ‘of ¢ the Darkinung Tribes.”—Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, ¥» 
N.S., 2. ' 
