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tralia 120 miles from Adelaide, the northern ones 
160, and the eastern one 200. Mr. Moorhouse 
estimates that there are altogether only about 3000 
natives. This however, appears to me to be a con- 
siderably under-rated number, and I should rather 
incline to the opinion, that there are twice as many, 
if the Port Lincoln peninsula be added to the limits 
already mentioned. In the Port Lincoln district, 
Mr. Schurman conjectures there are about 400. 
On the Murray River, which is, perhaps, the most 
densely populated part of the country, I imagine 
there are, from Moorunde, about three to four 
natives to every mile of river, which as it winds 
very considerably in its course, would give a large 
population to the square mile, if only the valley 
of the Murray was taken into account. 
There are other tribes also frequenting the river 
occasionally, from the back scrubs on either side ; 
but as these range through a great extent of country 
beyond the valley, and only sometimes come down 
there on a visit; I do not include them in the 
estimate. 
At Moorunde itself I have sometimes had from 
four to five hundred collected, and among those, 
only a few, perhaps, from the very remote tribes. 
At the Rufus and Lake Victoria, I have seen 
above six hundred together, where they had no 
other motive to collect in so large a party, than from 
custom, and for the enjoyment of festivity. 
Large towns are frequently the centre of meeting 
