152 R. H. MATHEWS. 
communicated by me to the pemropplonicn Institute of Great 
Britain.* 
I regret that in the present paper, as well as in the previous 
articles to which reference has been made, considerations of space 
have compelled me to omit many particulars which I would have 
liked to describe more fully. It will be observed that I have con- 
fined myself as much as practicable to descriptions only, without 
offering explanations, or submitting theories for the present. I 
have a mass of information bearing upon the reasons of many 
parts of the ceremonies and their meaning, gathered in conversa- 
tions with old headmen of different tribes, which it is hoped will 
be found of interest to those who study the customs of aboriginal 
races. 
Explanation of Woodcut.—Fig. 1 is a plan of the Burbung 
ground, showing everything in its correct position in regard to the 
north point, which is marked upon it. The scale is 16 chains to 
one inch. a@ is the Burbung circle; 6 is the goombo; and the 
dotted line from a to b is the pathway mooroo, leading from one 
to the other, a distance of 1225 yards, or about 554 chains—nearly 
three-quarters ofa mile. cis the archway through which the men 
passed in going along the track ; @ to ¢ is low lying level ground, 
with a deep, crooked watercourse running through it, which is 
liable to be inundated by the overflow of the water from the 
Murrumbidgee when that river is in a state of flood. From c to 
6, the path ran through scrubby land, considerably higher than 
the land at the Burbung. This scrub has, as stated in the text, 
been cleared away, and part of the land is now under cultivation. 
The space from c to b, enclosed by broken lines, is that which 
contained all the figures and carvings in the soil and on the trees, 
known collectively as yowan. 
Fig. 2 shows the Burbung ring, twenty-five yards by twenty- 
three yards, averaging twenty-four yards in diameter; a is the 
1“The Burbung of the hesnens Tribes.””—Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 
' XXV., 295-318. Ibid., XXVI., 272 - 
