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 circle of friends, supported behind by one of them, and the doctor presses the rug containing the doll to the patient's chest for some minutes, and then departs.

If the sick person is a chief or a chief's wife, or of superior rank, and the doctor, on visiting him at sunset, finds it beyond his power to remove the disease in the usual way, he goes up to the clouds after dark, and fetches down ten spirits. These he places at a distance of fifty yards from the sick person. He then has a conversation with his patient, and, after kneading him all over to ascertain the seat of the disease, he informs the spirits, and they tell him what to do. Having received his instructions, he warms his right hand at the fire and rubs it over the affected spot. The spirits then depart, with a croaking noise 'like the cry of the heron.' The doctor repeats the rubbing for three nights, and then, telling the patient he will soon be well, he departs for his home, with his followers. If, at the first meeting thereafter, his patient is cured, the doctor receives presents of food, rugs, and weapons; but if he dies the doctor gets nothing.

Spirits were very plentiful before the arrival of the white man. A spring of fine water near Mount Kolor, called Lurtpii, was their favourite resort, and they were to be found there at all times by the doctor, who alone had the power to make them appear. He summoned them, however, only in summer time, while the tribes were having their meetings and amusements. The men are not much afraid of these spirits in the daytime, but the women and children are terrified at them, and nobody runs the risk of seeing them after sunset.

Sometimes, when a korroboræ has ended, the doctor of the tribe calls on three or four female spirits to come down from the clouds and dance round the fire; and, when accosted, each gives its name as that of a deceased member of the tribe. Any person may look at them, but no one except the doctor can speak to them, and nobody dares to run away.

When the white men came to Victoria, there was one doctor of great celebrity in the Western District, Tuurap Wameen, chief of the Mount Kolor tribe. So celebrated was he for his supernatural powers, and for the cure of diseases, that people of various tribes came from great distances to consult him. He could speak many dialects. At korroboræs and great meetings he was distinguished from the common people by having his face painted red, with white streaks under the eyes, and his brow-band adorned with a quill feather of the turkey bustard, or with the crest of a white cockatoo. Tuurap Warneen was