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ADDITIONAL REMARKS CONCERNING ABORIGINAL BORA 
HELD at GUNDABLOUL in 1894. 
By R. H. Maruews, Licensed Surveyor. 
In 1894 I contributed to the Royal Society of New South Wales 
& paper describing a Bora,! which took place at Gundabloui, on 
the Moonie River, in the colony just named. As stated in that 
paper,” the information from which it was prepared was obtained 
from a correspondent residing at Mogil Mogil, about fifteen miles 
from Gundabloui. Although this gentleman gave me his assist- 
ance very willingly, he was altogether unaccustomed to the fulness 
of detail necessary in original research of this character, and was 
therefore unable to satisfy me in reference to certain parts of the 
ceremonies. There was the further disadvantage of my corres- 
pondent being separated from me by upwards of five hundred 
miles, which caused much delay and difficulty in obtaining answers 
tomy questions. From my knowledge of the initiation ceremonies 
of other tribes,? I considered that the statements furnished to me 
were substantially correct, and I had either to accept them as 
they were, or abandon the idea of publishing the results of my 
enquiries altogether. As no one had previously attempted to 
give a connected account of the Bora of the Kamilaroi tribes, and 
Knowing that further details could be supplied in the form of a 
Supplementary article at any time, I determined to prepare a 
Paper from the mass of original information which I had collected. 
ea the subject of the initiation ceremonies of the Australian 
_ tribes was then very little understood either in Australia or in 
England, I also sent a summarized copy of that paper to the 
Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, xxvi11., 98-129. 2 Loc. cit. 105 - 106. 
eed Burbung of the Wiradthuri Tribes”—Journ. Anthrop. Inst., _ 
ea 295-318. “The Initiation Ceremonies of the Aborigines of the 
MS a Lachlan ”—Proc, Roy. Geog. Soc. Aust. (Q.) x1., 167-169. ‘The 
bung of the New England Tribes”—Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, Ix., 
— G.S.), 120-136, 
