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 Coolabah trees, babies incarnated from, in some cases, 50, 51, 52.

Corroboree, or opera, 81, 122, 130.

Method of production, etc., 132.

Cowards and incapables, disposal of, 73.

Crow—girl babies, assistance in manufacture, 50.

Crying children—smoke remedy, 53.

Crystal-gazing, 26, 36.

Cunnumbeillee, wife of Byamee, 7.

Cures— Bootha's wondrous cures, 44-46.

Conjuring cures, 27.

Natural remedies, 37.

Noises to frighten sickness away, 40

Yunbeai cure, 29, 34.

Curiosity prohibited at the Boorah—fate of two boys who looked up, 65, 71, 72. 73.

—hole occupied by Bahloo's spirit-stone, 50.

Dancing, 122, 130.

Darramulun, 4, 9.

Dayoorl-stones, 117, 119.

Dead— Guarding from spirits, 85, 135. Keeping a dead body for a considerable time, reasons for, 91.

Passage of the spirit to Byamee's sky-camp or to a place of pain, xxvi, 90.

Possessions, disposal of, 94.

Prayers for the dead, 8.

Spirits of—Bootha's precautions, 48.

Taboo extended to possessions, case of, 94.

Death— Meteors and falling stars signs of, 91,99.

Signs of approach, 83.

Warning of—Bootha's witch-pole, 47, 49.

Woman's fault that death came into the world, 97, 98.

Death-dealing stone, 36.

Descent— Female descent—Euahlayi custom, 10, 12.

Paternal descent not necessarily a sign of advance alleged, xii, xiii, xiv.

Totem system, see that title.

Devil's bread, 140.

Dhé, see Totem system.

Dheal—tree sacred to the dead, 32.

Diamonds—talk of marvellous stones among the blacks, 101.

Dibbee (sandpiper), extinct kin, 19.

Dieri tribe, 10.

Dilbi and Kupathin—phratry names of Kamilaroi tribe, 12.

Dillalee, 66.

Dillee bag—contents, 36, 37.

Dillee—stone used for crystal-gazing, 36.

Dinewan (emu) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 15.

Disinfection by smoking, 41, 88, 89.

District occupied by the Euahlayi—North-Western New South Wales, 1.

Divorce, 58.

Dogs, spirits visible to, 46.

Doolooboorah—message-stick, 63.

Doolungaiyah (bilber) totem, with multiplex totems, 17.

Doowee—dream spirit of an ordinary person, 27-29.

Dorrunmai, a chief, 81.

Douyou (black snake) totem, with list of multiplex totems, 18.

Dream spirits, 27-29.

Dreams—totem seen in a dream, warning of coming evil, 28, 83.

Dress and decoration— Boorah ceremonies, 64, 65, 70, 77.

Cuts on the body—tribal and mourning marks, etc., 125.

Initiation ceremonies—girl, 57.

King's modern full dress, 120.

Ordinary dress, and dress for state occasions, 2, 120.

Drink, prohibition of, to any person embodying many spirits, 46.

Drinks—collarene, etc, 119.

Ducks—trapping and cooking, 106, 116.

Durrawunga—little Boorah, 70, 75.

Durrooee—sacred bird in whose shape spirits of dead women revisited the earth, 85.

Dying out of the blacks—prophetic vision of oldest wirreenuns, 76.

, various accounts of, 98.

Eleanbah Wundah, lower world—penalty for the three unforgivable sins, 78.

Employment of Euahlayi—all, except old men, employed by white settlers, 3.

Emu trapping and cooking, 107, 108, 116.