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through mere thoughtlessness or ignorance of the use of what they
received, nor yet ^from benevolence, that when a suit of clothes
was given to one, the company to which he belonged were
seen accoutred, one with nothing but a coat, another
with a hat, another with trowsers. A Law handed down
through many generations imposes this common
enjoyment of goods obtained by one. As caricatures sometimes
convey a wholesome lesson, the extreme communism of these savages may furnish an illustration
of political economy to some speculators
3. The hereditary System of Nomenclature and
Classivication is something of the nature of Caste.
Over a large part of the Interior, on Liverpool plains
the Namoi, and the Barwon, the aborigines all bear these
names "[Ippai?], murri, kubbi, and Kumbo" (men) and
"ippata, mata, Kapota, and bula" (women)
In some places where the other names are the same, baia
is substituted for murri. By means of these 8 names
they are classified thus:- in one family all the
sons are called ippai, all the daughters ippata; in
another all the sons are murri or baia, all the
daughters mata:- in a third family all the
sons are Kubbi, and the daughters Kapota: and