the Adelaide Tribe. 
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The extreme indolence of the savages forbids us to 
suppose that their progress in knowledge and in the arts 
°f life, as here described, is universally the same. 
What has been said may, however, give some general 
J dea of their condition four years ago. The arts of 
■weaving and house-building unused; their weapons rude 
unornamented sticks; their clothing (for those few 
^ho wear any at all) skins of the animals taken in 
hunting; their games childish; their wants few; their 
food grubs, berries, half-raw flesh, and guanas. 
The strangers disembarked at Yertabulti (the land of 
sleep or death), since named Port Adelaide; they 
Cr ossed a plain called, in memory of some ancient battle, 
Mihaioomma, or the Plain of Meeting; and, coming to 
the Karrauwirraparri , or River of the red-gum Forest, 
called it, after the name of the Chairman of the Colo¬ 
uration Commissioners, Torrens ; and on Tandanya , or 
South Adelaide, laid out a spacious town, sufficient for 
1^0,000 people. 
The forgotten Aborigines meanwhile, as when Car¬ 
thage was first colonized of old,— 
Mirantur moles magalia quondam, 
Mirantur portas, strepitumque, et strata viarum. 
Instant ardentes Tyrii: pars ducere muros, 
Pars optare locum tecto, et concludere sulco. 
Jura magistratusque legunt, sanctumque senatum. 
Hie portus alii eifodiunt: hie alta tlieatris 
Fundamenta locant alii.” 
The children of modern Tyre were at first too busy, as 
the poet says, with roads, town allotments, the affairs of 
government, their Municipality (unless sanctum sena - 
turn refer rather to the Executive Council), and their 
Imposing theatre, to enquire after the names which had 
to them of their doings when on earth. The sun every month 
5la ys her husband (the moon); but, in dying, he revives again.—T. 
