

THI-: 



Alu: 





lnj:^ of 



AUSTRALIA. 



By 



A\'. T. W^ 



-XDH. 



^v, r>,)yne 



Island, Queensland. 



L 



n^.<ih 



efore tJ 



u- no,; 



alSori.t,f,X 



S.M-.,Jnnr5,IS8'..2 



TiiK T:cuu 



ible Tribe ii 



ihabitin<rtheW( 



3stcrn Fall of New En- 



from the 



Peel 



to the Son 



•ereign Riv 



er, take their name 



(L^cuin)^v 



hich . 





No. 



A tnutll t 



ribe whicli joined th. 



the north 



were 



'called (Qi 



lieunible) f 



i-om the word (Quie) 



jneaus No 



. Tc 



. the 



north-west tliev 



were bounded by a 



(liio-umble)whi( 



•h S.'li< 



I (Ya 



^■-a) for N( 



). ^ o tlie south and i 



west by tl- 



le (W; 



lll.MTi 



) and 



the (Cinnilri) which respective! 



(Wal) Hud 



(Cun 



lil) fot 



■ No. 







The Uc 



Lunl)]e 



Tril). 



^ lia( 



1 a traditioi 



I that they arrived 



country :v. 





tals, a 





heir old me 



n had a great many c 



descriptive 



^ofthc 





al, an 



d of that wl 



nch each one said, .-UH 



ir. l^va 11 



in .Ties li 



oolhaiiar K )' • - C v tl u-iv 



iarri<-."'>rai 



r-thanar, ; 



uid Cubbe marries Epathanai-. This 

 continues from generation to -rr, ra- 



any one m 



M/es a qir 



i contrary to this order he is (W-nri) 



lawc'd, and 



coukf ] 



)e killed by any one without frnr 





Ul tlie Ci 



nnbos consider themselves brothers, 



nding'how 





he tribe, nor how remote the rc.-lation- 



witli Eva and all th( 



i otliers. The same witli the women. 





interchange wives and steal each other's gins, 



il.r','an!l'j 



tlie can 



e diH-even 



Th,-v a 



.e of their tights. All the Cun.bos, 

 t tril)e.s will help their brothers if 

 lu;.N. fought most honourably before 

 Inr,.! ^lled dccidod tlie contest. Each 



Many people maintain that the aborigines have no belief in tlie 

 Supreme Being, or a futurti state, which I am far from agi'eeing 

 with. They have a God whom they call Byamy in Ucumb'le ; He 

 is tlie " All Powerful," tlie " Creator," and Supreme Ruler of 

 everything. They will not mention His name on any account, 



