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present. The colour red, amongst black races, was the symbol of 
evil.* 
Mr. Maurice Hayes, of Queahgong, informed me that he has 
known the rock for the past fifty years, and that the imprints 
have not altered in the least. He found it difficult to obtain 
reliable information from the Aborigines regarding them ; they 
expressed ignorance, but ultimately gave him to understand that 
the “ hands were the imprints of those of their Deity, when on 
earth. 5 ’ 
The large alluvial flats in this neighbourhood, along the Wollon- 
dilly, were, I was informed, great gathering grounds for the 
various tribes from many miles round, even those of Goulburn 
and Shoalhaven participating. 
On a spur overlooking one of these green expanses, known as 
Gorman’s Flat, immediately at the junction of the Wollondilly and 
Nattai Rivers, in Portion B. 171/587, Parish of Wingecarrabee, 
County Westmoreland, we investigated an interment, thirty years 
old, indicated by a single carved tree, but the device has, I regret 
to say, been wantonly destroyed. This grave is known to be 
that of “Jimmy Aremoy,” or “Blackman’s Billy,” of the local 
tribe, and called in the Aboriginal dialect Ah-re-moy , and was 
covered by a small mound at the foot of a small tree, forty-seven 
feet north of the carved tree, and had been surrounded by a 
sapling fence. After removingf the mound and superincumbent 
soil, we found the grave had been filled with boulders and large 
pieces of rock, to the depth of four feet six, whilst under this was 
a layer of split timber and bark. On removing this, we found 
the skeleton well wrapt in what had once been an old coat, a 
blanket, and an opossum rug. The skeleton was doubled up in 
the usual manner, the arms drawn up to the breast, and the legs 
against the abdomen, placed on the right side, and facing the 
south-east. On endeavouring to remove the remains, the whole 
collapsed, and it was found possible to secure only the skull and 
limb bones. The whole of the bones were blackened and much 
decayed, from the presence of a good deal of soakage water. Mr. 
Maurice Hayes told me that the local Aborigines generally buried 
in a sitting posture, the corpse being in a small drive from the 
bottom of the grave proper — the Theddora Tribe, at Omeo, buried 
in a similar manner^ — and with a stake driven through the 
skull from above ; but in this case the deceased had certainly 
* Fraser, Journ. R. Soc. N.S. Wales for 1882 [1883], xvi., p. 213. 
f The grave was opened with the permission and assistance of Mr. 
Maurice Gorman, the owner of the ground. 
JHowitt, Journ. Anthrop. Inst. Gt. Brit, and Ireland, 1884, xiii., 
p. 190. 
