Item 03: 'The Aborigines of Australia. A Lecture by Wm. Ridley M.A.', 14 September 1864. - Page 45

 ‡’ Once, however, when I asked an old blackfellow on the Hunter

River about Baiame, he replied "Oh! Baiame does not

come to us now; because the blackfellows about here are

almost all dead".   He gave me to understand that when

a multitude invoked Baiame, He came into the midst

of them   ‡’PV

M Taplin, superintendant of the Mission at Point Macleay,  

states that the blacks there believe in a Supreme Being

whom they call Nurundee, and also in demons of the  

wood and of the water.   Heaven and Earth are, to the  

imagination of the Murri, peopled with unseen beings.