. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . reputation of being of the Coolabah tree and cruelly incarnate noisy and quarrelsome, perhaps the vie- themselves in one unhappy mother, who is tory rests with the stronger sex after all. thus exposed to the opprobrium of the camp ? It is somewhere ontlie Culgoa River thatBahloo, the moon,makes the girl babies;his work-table is a bigstone, which lies at thebottom of a hole intime of drought, butat other times risesfrom its place and justkeeps its top above thewater. When Bahloosshare in the man
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . reputation of being of the Coolabah tree and cruelly incarnate noisy and quarrelsome, perhaps the vie- themselves in one unhappy mother, who is tory rests with the stronger sex after all. thus exposed to the opprobrium of the camp ? It is somewhere ontlie Culgoa River thatBahloo, the moon,makes the girl babies;his work-table is a bigstone, which lies at thebottom of a hole intime of drought, butat other times risesfrom its place and justkeeps its top above thewater. When Bahloosshare in the manu-facture of babies is atan end, he hands tliemover to a birth-spiritnamed Waddahgud-jaelwon, and he hangsthem about on trees towait till some womanpasses beneath ; thenthey seize upon herand are in a fair wayto make their appear-ance on the earth. If,however, the baby is tolive, it must manage tofind an earthly fathertoo; those for whichBahloo, the moon, isalone responsible, areborn with teeth. Another way inwhich a baby may finda mother is by beingsnatched up in a whirl-wind by the evil spirit. Und GIRL FROM CAPE DIRECTION. Under ordinary circumstances few ornamentsare worn. And to put its malicebeyond dispute the firstborn of twins comesinto the world with itstongue stuck out inmockery of its miser-able parent. Some unlucky babieshang themselves ontrees beneath whichthere is no traffic;waiting and wailing fora mother they get onthe nerves of thespirits, who transformthem into mistletoe,and form its orangered flowers from theblood of never - to - beborn children. Usuallythe spirit baby is newlymade for each mother ;but if a child dies veryyoung, it may be rein-carnated ; and thebabies that are pleasedwith their first motherschoose the same again,othersvise they are al-lowed to go to someother acquaintance. In the north ofQueensland the blacksare equally ingenious ifless convincing in theirexplanations. On theTully River a woman Wurrawilberoo ; and the woman thus dis- expects
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