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As Emu’s brothers are likewise referred to, and give their names 
as Emu, and as the Solomons and Dalys are numerous, and there are 
several Slocums, it may he inferred that there are distinctive native 
family or group names. Although I am inclined to think that this is 
the case, all attempts to elicit them have failed. Two of the sons of 
the A\ r ulnar headman Emu are named Dl‘inmnannag\va (Benedict) 
and LTierdwoa (Erancis) ; it will he interesting to observe whether 
these young boys retain those names in manhood, and whether the 
headship descends to either. 
The following incident may possibly have reference to names or 
to totems. My boy being told to remove a green jumping frog, and 
misunderstanding my remark, besought me not to kill it, alleging, 
“That one my father.” His father was long dead. Upon my 
remarking that be had killed one at the office, which I still think was 
of the same species, he waxed indignant, and laboured to assure me 
that “This one my father indeed ( godlon , truly); that fellow no belong 
tome.” Some months after, he pointed out a pigeon to me : “Sec 
that fellow? him my father” ; and, upon my recalling the incident of 
the frog to his mind, he replied, “ That all right ; him my father, this 
one another father. AY hitcfellow no savee. X could not ascertain, 
nor do I think, that his father or father’s brothers bore their names, 
and totemism is denied, either personal or for sex or clan. 
A widow and orphans are kept alternately by her own and by 
her deceased husband’s family, and in some instances I know the time 
of relief is eagerly looked for. This rule also obtains when the 
parents belong to different tribes ; the children, however, are of their 
mother’s tribe. Keddell, the son of an Awarra woman whom a 
Larraki‘a had stolen for wife, is an Awarra. 1 1 is parents both died in 
his infancy, and until puberty he was brought up principally by his 
father’s family ; he now lives with the Awarra, but in the Larraki'a 
camp when he visits his father’s people he takes his place of right in 
their circle. A AV ulnar by his first wife had two sons and two 
daughters, and later by his second wife, a LarrakTa dwelling on the 
Elizabeth, two sons— Berber and Lemallagwa. He and his first wife 
are dead, ana his issue from both marriages have resided with the 
brother of the second wife, who remains a widow. I cannot say 
whether the first wife was a Larrakka, hut all the issue are Larraki‘a; 
one of the daughters lias some knowledge of the AVulnar tongue, the 
others have forgotten it. The widow’s brother has now taken to wife 
a AV ulnar, a girl of thirteen, named Minn-gari, unable to speak in 
Larrakiha. ’ I/uerdwoa, a AV ulnar previously mentioned, and 
Lemallagwa are tribal brothers, hut in fact their parents were not 
brothers or sisters. 
Infants are betrothed spouses, and in some cases the bestowal is 
made, sex being favourable, antecedent to birtli. My boy at one time 
pointed out a blaekfellow going past the veranda, and said, “ Suppose 
me a lubra, that one my husband (naoiv'a)'' To my inquiry, “ What 
name that blaekfellow?’” with a view to investigation from other points, 
I was met with — - u Oh, him blaekfellow, and I could obtain no more. 
At another time be said of a boy, “Suppose that fellow a girl 
(Inin-ngoc/olo), him my wife (alladikk) . ’ Somewhat similar observations 
were casually addressed to me by others, who, seeing I was interested 
in the subject, at their own time and with just as much as they 
