them into the proper shape, the ends are then pared rather thin ; 

 the peel of some tibi^ous root (generally from a species of licus) is 

 used as a thread to sew the bark together ; the two pieces of bark 

 are placed on their sides, and the bottom sewn on to them by- 

 using an awl, a roll of the paper tea tree plant is used to caulk 

 the cracks, two saplings are sewn inside to stiffen the outer rim of 

 the canoe all round, and the okka is finished. 



Their corrobborees travel a long distance from tribe to tribe. 

 I will describe one witnessed at two places, two or three hundred 

 miles apart, and the inference drawn from it. T had taken a mob 

 of catth; to the Condamine or Barwon River, a long distance from 



th.-.tliNocHii tl.o u-Mtrr. 1 took no fur 



ther 



notice 



than i, year afterwards, being on thf 









ioreo 



, bein.t 



tribe th.'^ivinnble. ' nnd'foumT that ' it 



had 









, ' Oil 



Ucund)le trihe as'to what the imaue \ 







they tokl mo it was the (Jul.iLun, uhir 





renin 



for the bunvip, warwav, or puimui, ^^\ 



lirh , 



■ill h;n 



Some Htth^Vhile after ■'tins 1 vn. sittii 



■1- d 



<,Nvn %\ 



'>ieu to (haw your own inference. Tlic 

 (>alhitn) bits of the nautilus shell and ot 

 found with every tribe all through tlie intei 

 they knew of tlie Bunya Bunya pine, why 

 the crocodih; have travelled down south a^. 

 The aborigine's in Central Queensland h 

 customs as the tribes in N«3W South Wal 

 Keppel Island was taken up and stoeked 



half-a-dozen of the ishmders — the white 

 With me could not make them nndei--'i 

 cross-legged and smoothing the grouml eac 



