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information regarding it ; nor could I find any key to the meaning of the 
scars on the bodies of aboriginals. 
One day when talking with an oid lubra and her daughter near Port 
Alligator Tribe. (Photograph by Mr Foelsche. ) 
Darwin, I gathered that there was some connection between the marks 
across the upper part of the abdomen and the number of children they 
had borne — four and one respectively. I tested this information on other 
blacks and found confirmation of it. Mr Foelsche, who is one of the best 
informed and most exact of all observers of aboriginals, told me that he 
