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shortly giving way, was driven from the field and pursued into 
the dark void, where roars and groans, and the sound of blows, 
left but little to be imagined on the score of a bloody massa¬ 
cre.” 1 
The aborigines of Victoria also have a corrobboree in which 
the party breaks up into two divisions, one representing the 
black fellow's and the other the whites. After all the appear¬ 
ance of a desperate fight, the whites are driven back, to the 
great joy of the onlookers. 2 
In another Australian initiation ceremony the boys were 
pursued by the men, who 1 threw boomerangs at the initiates. 
The youths reached the corrobboree ground, and were safe. 
They were then freed from the ban of silence. 3 In the Bin- 
binja tribe a boy was sent away from the camp. He wias then 
allowed to return and at sundown he was made to lie down 
and was covered with paper bark. His elder brothers fixed a 
row of boomerangs upright in the ground in front of the boy, 
who still lay quietly down while the performers retired. The 
brothers sang around the fire, and at midnight the boy was 
awakened and allowed to- see a sacred ceremony. 4 In another 
ceremony the boy was similarly covered with bark, and was 
later uncovered 1 , as a sign of his admission into the tribe. 5 
In central Queensland the youth is driven out of the camp 
and is brought back again as a sign of his final identification 
1 Lieut.-Col. Mundy, “Our Antipodes,” pp. 45-6. In R. Brough Smyth, 
“The Aborigines of Victoria,” 2 vols., 1878; vol. 1, p. 175. 
2 R. Brough Smyth, 1. c., vol. 1, p. 171. 
3 Spencer and Gillen, “Northern Tribes of Central Australia,” p. 363. 
4 Spencer and Gillen, “Northern Tribes,” p. 366. 
s Spencer and Gillen, “Northern Tribes,” p. 371. These authors give 
many examples of these ceremonies. In “The Native Tribes of Central 
Australia” they give initiation ceremonies and their traditions on pp. 
225-226; 282-286; 288; 293-294; 304-305; 312-316; 318-320; 331-332; 
334-337; 338-341—’“associated with a curious and rather complicated 
tradition”; 360. A full account of the traditions dealing with the 
Alcheringa ancestors is given in chapters 10 and 11, pp. 387-449. 
The following accounts of ceremonies of initiation will be found in 
the Journal of the Anthropological Institute: 
A. W. Howitt, “The Jeraeil, or Initiation Ceremonies of the Kurnai 
