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shown in the column headed "wife." All the members of the A 

 phratry are printed in Roman letters, and those of the B phratry 

 are all in italic. For the purpose of illustrating the order of 

 descent, I will take a few examples from "Phratry A" in each 

 type of social structure. Thus, in Table No. 3, where the phratry 

 consists of only one division, Thinnewa produces Thinnewa from 

 generation to generation. In Table No. 2, which is an example 

 of tribes who have two divisions in the phratry, Loora produces 

 Arrawonga, and Arrawonga produces Loora in the next generation, 

 and so on continually. When there are four divisons in the 

 phratry, of which Table No. 5 is an example, we find in the column 

 headed "wife," that Kungilla has a daughter Belyeringie ; Belyer- 

 ingie produces Narechie ; Narechie is the mother of Beneringie ; 

 Beneringie has a daughter Kungilla, the same name we commenced 

 with; and this order of succession is repeated for ever. If our 

 examples had been selected from "Phratry B," an analogous result 

 would have been obtained. In all the Tables herein given, the 

 sons of the women of one phratry marry the daughters of the 

 women of the other; therefore, the men and women of the same 

 generation in each phratry respectively stand in the mutual 

 relationship to each other of brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. 



Let us suppose a line drawn from Anson Bay, at the mouth of 

 Daly River, to Limmen Bight in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and 

 then take the portion of the Northern Territory of South Australia 

 bounded on the north by the said line; on the west by Western 

 Australia; on the east by Queensland, and on the south by South 

 Australia proper. Throughout this immense tract of country I 

 have described the divisional systems of the principal native com- 

 munities sparsely distributed over it. For particulars of my work 

 the reader is referred to the tables at pages 72, 73 and 75 of the 

 thirty-second volume of the Journal of this Society, and to Tables 

 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the present article. The divisions shown in 

 Table No. 7 also extend a long way westerly into West Australia, 

 reaching from Termination Lake northerly to Wyndham, a distance 

 of about three hundred miles. 



