ROCK PAINTINGS AND CARVINGS OF THE ABORIGINES. 63 
The only drawing visible is that of a man in black on the back of 
the cave. The upper portion of this figure extends over smoke- 
blackened. rock, but the background of the lower portion of the figure 
being somewhat light in colour the artist lias made up for the deficiency 
by drawing lines in black longitudinally through the figure. Other 
figures have been drawn in black and also in white in this cave, but 
they have been almost entirely obliterated by cattle which used this 
place as a camping-ground. 
Fig. 6. — A cave in the ITawkesbury Sandstone, forming a crescent- 
shaped hollow, is situated about a quarter of a mile due cast from 
Portion No. 14, of 40 acres, in the parish of Lockyer, county of 
Northumberland, and is of the foil owing dimensions: — Length, 117 feet; 
height, about 20 feet; and depth, 24 feet. The floor is of rock, which in 
places is covered with sand derived from the weathering of the roof, 
which is of a rough uneven nature, and altogether an unfavourable 
place for the execution of these drawings. The roof is also blackened 
in places by the smoko from the camp fires, of which there are a few 
traces remaining in the shape of cinders and partially burnt sticks. 
The percolation of water through this sandstone — in places giving 
rise to a stalactitic growth — has caused this rock to weather very 
rapidly, destroying many drawings, portions of which can be seen on 
flakes of stone that have dropped from the roof and walls. At certain 
seasons also the drop was not inconsiderable, for well-known grooves 
on the rock show that at times there has been sufficient water in the 
hollows on the floor to enable them to sharpen their stone tomahawks 
around them. 
There are still twenty figures, all drawn in black, distinctly visible 
in this rock-shelter. The greater portion of the first figure on the 
extreme left has disappeared, leaving only the head and forepaws 
remaining ; but from their size and appearance I believe that the figure 
to which they belonged was intended to represent a kangaroo or a 
wallaby. To the right of the last figure there is a small marsupial 
drawn in the act of running, and what appear to be a slut and a dog, 
the latter with the extremities of the legs worn away; such a small 
portion of the figure immediately to the right of the dog is remaining 
that I will not hazard an opinion as to what it was intended to 
represent. There is also a large figure, with a tail and four paws 
extended, which might be likened to a turtle drawn on a large scale, 
and the three figures above it resemble members of the rat tribe. The 
figures in the southern portion of the cave consist of a kangaroo, a 
human hand, a man holding one end of a spear or waddy in his band 
and the other touching a kangaroo in the act of jumping, a small 
animal resembling a dog, a bird like a parrot but with a rather long 
tail, an animal not unlike a kangaroo minus the forepaws, a human 
hand and portion of the forearm, two small creatures with only the 
outlines drawn, whose respective genera would be difficult to determine, 
and one whose upper portion resembles the usual aboriginal drawing 
of a woman and the lower that of a man. 
Fig. 7. — The cave or rock -shelter in which these figures are drawn 
is situated within Portion No. 11, of 40 acres, in the parish of Corrabare, 
county of Northumberland, in an escarpment of Hawkesbury Sand- 
stone, about 400 yards from Wollombi Brook, in which there is 
permanent water. 
