126 - &. H. MATHEWS. 
About daylight every morning the bullroarer is sounded by one 
of the single men in close proximity to the camp, and when this 
is heard the men raise a shout.’ 
_ During the early part of the day the men and youths would go 
out hunting for the purpose of obtaining food. The women, would 
also go out in search of such game and roots as they are in the 
habit of procuring. Infirm old men and women and young children 
would be left in the camp. By about two or three o'clock, most 
of the people would have returned from the bush, some coming in 
at one time and some at another, according to their success in the 
field. 
About two or three hours before sun-set, the men of the local 
tribe, with their head-man in the lead, would proceed to the ring 
in a serpentine line, with a bush in each hand. Some of the men 
might have a boomerang in one hand and a bush in the other, oF 
perhaps a boomerang in each hand. This would be a signal for 
the men of the other tribes, who would also start, and join the 
assemblage, the members of each tribe keeping by themselves. 
This procession would march round and round inside the ring 
until all of them had entered it. The headmen of the local tribe 
would then call out the names of camping places, etc., and this 
example would be followed by the headmen of the other con-— 
tingents in succession. 
All the men would then come out of the ring, and throwing 
down their bushes, would start away along the track towards the 
goombo, the local men being in the lead. A stoppage is made at 
the image of Dhurramoolan, the fire, and all the principal figures 
on the ground and on the trees, the men dancing and shouting 4§ 
they come to each one.? On arriving at the goombo, any of the 
clever men, who want to display their magical powers, stand at the 
1 «The Burbung of the New England Tribes.’”-—Proc. Roy. Soc. Vie 
toria,1x., N.S.,121. “The Bunan Ceremony of N. S. Wales.”—Americat 
Anthropologist, 1x., 333, 334. 
2«*The Bora, or Initiation Ceremonies of the Kamilaroi Tribes.” — 
Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xxv., 323. 
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