Nature . pointone of the special Death-bones or Sacred stones of thetribe. Generally a blackfellow goes away quite byhimself when he is singing magic, but veryoccasionally a few men join together, as they did intha case of Goggle Eye. ... Of course the manwho has been sung must be told somehow, or hewill not get a fright and die. There are many ways 1 The Little Black Princess : A True Tale of Life in the Never-neverLand. By Jeanie Gunn. Pp. vii + 107; illustrated. (London : The DeLa More Press, 1905 ) Price 5*. net. 56 NA TURE [December 14, 1905 of telling him, without letting him know who ha
Nature . pointone of the special Death-bones or Sacred stones of thetribe. Generally a blackfellow goes away quite byhimself when he is singing magic, but veryoccasionally a few men join together, as they did intha case of Goggle Eye. ... Of course the manwho has been sung must be told somehow, or hewill not get a fright and die. There are many ways 1 The Little Black Princess : A True Tale of Life in the Never-neverLand. By Jeanie Gunn. Pp. vii + 107; illustrated. (London : The DeLa More Press, 1905 ) Price 5*. net. 56 NA TURE [December 14, 1905 of telling him, without letting him know who has sung him ; but the man who leaves the bone aboutmust, of course, be very careful to destroy his owntracks. Have you ever heard of faith-healing?Well, dying from bone-pointing is faith-dying!Goggle Eye, after he had found the bones lyingabout, knew exactly what was going to happen tohim—and of course it did. You cannot change a blackfellow into a whiteman, if you try; you only make a bad, cunning, sly. Fig. i.— Tree-burial, south of the Roper River. From old blackfellow. I dont mean you cant make ablackfellow into a better blackfellow. I know thatcan be done, if he is kept a blackfellow, true to hisblackfellow instincts. \. (. H. NOTES. The Nobel prizes in science have this Mar been awardedas follows: -Hie prize for physics to Prof. P. Lenard, ofthe University of Kiel, for his investigations on kathoderays; the prize for chemistry to Prof. Adolf von Bayer, olthe University of .Munich, for the development in organicchemistry and chemical industry resulting from his workson organic colouring matters and hydro-aromatic com-pounds; the medical prize to Dr. Robert Koch, for hisdiscoveries in connection with tuberculosis. The prizes,consisting of a sum of about 7700/., an illuminateddiploma, and a gold medal with an appropriate inscrip-tion, were presented b) King Oscar on December 10 atthe annual ceremony in commemi ration of the founderol the institution. The following note ap
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