HORN EXPEDITION—ANTHROPOLOGY. 
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minutes, the man to the south was heard, out in the darkness, advancing towards the 
corrobboree ground, yelling periodically as he approached; each yell was answered 
by a couplet chanted by the seated chorus group, voices and accompaniment dying 
away to absolute stillness as before described. The man from the south having then 
resumed his place amongst the dancers, there followed again a series of advancing 
and retreating movements of all the performers in transverse lines which were 
succeeded by similar movements of one, two, three, or four of them at a time ; 
every figure being accompanied by its appropriate chant repeated many times over 
and always dying away to silence. 
Amongst these chants their frequent repetition enabled me to distinguish the 
following, each couplet being repeated a great many times :— 
Amting arokata ma yi a-a- 
Amungata punchipa angela-a-a- 
Amingaa tunpla amula ring-pa ra-a-a- 
I-mutalla muralla karai-i-i- 
Urnatchi pauera ta-a-a- 
Urnatchai paur tchariecha ra-a-a 
Kotcliiuk clia-mg pina-a-a- 
Okutchai okotchai ing pina-a- 
Miiugata mart i pi-i-f- 
Miiugata mart arai mungata mart arai-ai-ai- 
Chaakwi iluna mungaru muui-i'-i- 
Uiiga pimka cliie catch-i killa uri-i-f- 
/ 
Ung-appa chikka-a-a wolpera-a-a muri-i-i- 
This kind of performance was continued without cessation till the early 
morning; on the following evening it was resumed, and it was not completed until 
the third night. On that evening, on which the body and head decorations were 
changed, the conspicuous movement was the frequent encircling of the group of 
performers by one of their number, who extracted dismal notes out of a straight 
wooden trumpet made out of a piece of mallee {Eucalyptus^ spl) from which the 
heart-wood had been eaten out by termites. Again, at one stage, the women and 
children retired to a short distance, soon afterwards returning to their places; and 
at another stage a performer climbed up the pole and rested for a time in the fork 
(Plate XV., Fig. 19), while the others continued their evolutions to the chanting 
of the chorus. 
At Tempo Downs, where we also saw a corrobboree, the decorations and the 
performance itself were very much of the same character though there was no 
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