THE BURBUNG OR INITIATION CEREMONY. 127 
heaps of earth and run after the other men who race about so as 
to get out of their reach. On these occasions there is no detach- 
ment of men hidden behind the garreel, or screen of boughs, that 
formality being gone through only on the arrival of a new mob. 
At the conclusion of the proceedings the men return along the 
track to the ring and dance round, shouting the names of camping 
places, waterholes or the like, in their respective districts, after 
which they go to their camps. At these daily performances, the 
probationers go direct from the camp or ngooloobul to the goombo, 
and are invited by the old men to take particular notice of all the 
performances, and of everything on the ground and trees, so that 
they may be able to reproduce them on future occasions. When 
the men start back to the ring these probationers go to the camp 
direct from the goombo. 
Later in the evening, if it were not wet or the men too tired, 
the usual corroboree would be danced by the tribe whose turn it 
was todo so. After that the bullroarer would be sounded in the 
adjacent forest, which would be answered by shouts of the men, 
and the women singing the usual burbung songs. 
At the daily meetings of the headmen at the ngooloobul, or 
men’s council place, the kooringal, or band of strong active men, 
who are to perform all the pantomimic displays in the bush are 
Picked‘out ; and also the men who are to act as guardians to the 
novices are chosen at these meetings. 
Pieces of bark, called munga or dhoorwng are stripped from 
trees somewhere adjacent to the goombo, where they are kept 
ready for use on the morning of the final ceremony, to be described 
Presently. These strips of bark are about two feet and a half in 
length, and six inches in width at one end, but tapering smaller 
at the other in order that they may be gripped in the hand.’ 
On the evening preceding the taking away of the novices there 
is the usual corroboree, and afterwards there is considerable sexual 
1 For an illustration of one of these a of bark, see plate xxvi., i 
40.—Journ. Anthro op. Inst., xxv., 308 and 3 : 
