NUMBERS. 
375 
children at home, with aged relatives, whilst they 
themselves go to a distance. In all the periodical, 
or regular issues of flour at the time of full moon, I 
have accurately kept lists of all who attended. The 
gross totals of thirty-three issues are as follows : — 
Men 
. 1266 
Women . 
. 1330 
Boys 
. 930 
Girls 
. 551 
Infants 
52 
4129 
From this it is apparent, first, that the women 
attending the monthly meetings at the Murray have 
been, on the whole, about five and a half per cent, in 
excess of the men, an extraordinary and unusual cir- 
cumstance, as compared with the results obtained at 
other places. I can only account for this upon the 
supposition before given, that when large bodies of 
natives leave Moorunde for Adelaide, more men than 
women go away, and that consequently a larger 
proportion of females is left behind. Mr. Moor- 
house remarks, upon this point, that he has found 
the males to average seventy per cent, more than the 
females, among the Adelaide tribes. My own 
observation leads me to the opinion that upon the 
Murray the two sexes are as nearly equal in numbers 
as may be. 
Secondly, it would appear, that of the Moorunde 
