speais ;iiul luuids to remove the earth. Mesbeiigei-s, soemingly 

 weighed down with <;rief, often went to and fro between the 

 gr<L\e-di<:ifeis and tlic slowly approaching funeral procession. 



niOMMiiiht-, /i-/,ii;iiii; away towaids IMr. TTakA house, wheeling 

 and tiiiiiin-. \,ul aTw a^s" getting nearer the place of burial. 

 M.\^U\ Ki.d Jlal.^iind 'l were pla\ing together at the time in 

 till- \i<iiiit\, and our i uriosity Leing aroused by the strange sight, 

 we h id a nio^-t ta\ oufrdjU- opportunity of witnessing the e\olutions. 

 On tlip\ (ante, and away they went, mad like in their Tnovements 

 lait w iih method in that madne^^ Cios&hig over into the wattles 

 on Ml Dean's L.nd, they halted for a moment, started again, 



,i,<ai id innMi.'i. sidex\..\s/around a third. Suddenly 'startingotT 

 .u I 1, I , 1 ui hkc ti. lined soldiers keeping perfect step, darting 

 oi u 1 iiu'it an^'lc, l)-ii king down tlie hypothenuse, elldea^ curing 

 ill the ino'-i luetliodual manner possible to produce the greatest 

 possil)le contusion, keeping up all the time a mournful chant 

 w^hich could be compared to nothing so well as to the partly 

 muffled sounds of distant u^.olian harp, or a ])as.in<r swarm of 

 bees. After about half-an-hour of this, they started oli" at a run 



(M^t. in end f)f the l)iii \ mg ground, suddenly retiacing their steps, 

 11. n luinm- n-lit iT.out 'and walking for a short distance, 

 wh, . Ill ^ a littl(> to 111.' light the> maivhed straight to the open 



a few pi(M e. of b.iik and some loaves were placed on the bottom 

 of die graxe ; tlie Ijodv w;us then gently lowered, leaves and bark 

 vere placed gently on k, and then the grave was filled with earth. 

 With bark and Ijoughs they built a little wurley over the newly- 

 made grave, with its open side towards the east. The mourners 

 camped that night not far distant. Xext morning the eastern 

 sun spread his golden glory down the western undulations of 

 those hills. The watchers saw the light kiss the newly-made 

 grave of their beloved queen, and, to them, it was a sign that she 

 had leached the land of light and of the rising sun. T learnt 

 afttiunds that the object of their peculiar and eccentric 

 journ. vin-> was to pu/zle the evil one, and so prevent him from 

 tolloumg th.ir footsteps and catching the queen, before she had 

 tnn. to M u h the eastern and sunny land of the good.- -Certainly 

 a \ny pr.i(.tic,il means of escape from the devil. 



I will now briefly refer to their language, and furnish a short 

 list of the words and j)iirases of those tribes who once inhabited 

 the plains of Adelaide. The list is very brief and of course 



