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had no powerful relatives, or who has not rendered himself conspicuous during life-time by any deeds of valour or prowess. Directly, such as one is dead, he is wrapped up in a piece of tea-tree bark, the arms being laid at the sides, or crossed over the breast. He is thus kept for 2 or 3 days until his relatives, for whom messengers have been sent, can come up and view the body, which is uncovered from its wrappings as occassion requires. Each night the body is mourned, the mourners covering themselves entirely with pipe-clay or white mud - a ring of it round the face in the women - and as often as not anoint themselves with the oily exudation of the corpse: whenever this is done, the mourners do not wash themselves until all the stench has gone from the,, and this does not happen for much under 2 months, the smell can be better imagined than described. In between the wailing and crying, they will moan somewhat as follows: - ’Oh! Brother) (sister etc as the case may be), ’how we used to catch Kangaroo together, how we use to’ do this or that, recalling some familiar episode or adventure etc. ’Oh! you have left me behind now.’ The body is at length buried at any time during the day, the place of burial being anywhere, but, as a rule, away from the camp, and away from where yams or ?, or any particular patch of food may be pretty plentiful - any such spot, and anything growing on it is now taboo from the girls, but not from the men. The hole dug is about 3 by 1 1/2 feet at the surface, where it is oval, and about 3 feet deep where it is made larger and more circular. While still wrapped in the bark, the body is doubled up (both at the thighs and at the knees), coverings and all, so that the knees are in close apposition to the face, and then put into the hole, the body generally tilted to the one side or the other: if the individual in question