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NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA
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which these burial arrangements were made. It confirms the statement made to me that Ngaui and Garchuka "went together," and that there were Batya-ngal in each class. It shows that Munya and Krokitch-batya-ngal were each divided into two branches. As far as I could learn, Gamutch-jallan had no mortuary totem.

The spaces between the directions have names, which I have written down as far as I could obtain them. The word Kolkorn means wholly, or altogether, so that Kolkorn-batya-ngal means "altogether pelican," as Kolkorn-munya means "altogether yam." But I could not ascertain why both the space-names Krokitch-batya-ngal and Garchuka are applied to Barewun. I may add that the whole universe, including mankind, was apparently divided between the classes. Therefore the list of sub-totems might be extended indefinitely. It appears that a man speaks of some as