X THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
The New England tribe, the Yunggai, has caused me much perplexity. There are scarcely any blacks of that territory now surviving ; but the tribal language is quite different in its words from those around it ; I also know for certain that the table-land of New England did not belong either to the Kamalarai or the Walarai. I have, therefore, called this tribe the Yung-gai, from Yung—the name which the coast tribes give to New England.
The Ngarego tribe belongs rather to Victoria than to New South Wales.
Of these tribes, the Kamalarai, Walarai, Ngaiamba, Bakanji, Wiradhari, the Associated Tribes, the Ngarego, the Kuringgai, are names already established and in use ; and most of them are formed from the local word for ' no,' and thus describe more the speech than the people. The names, Murrinjari, Wachigari, Paikalynng, Yakkajari, I have made ; for these tribes have no general name for themselves. Wachi-gari and Yakka-jari are legitimate formations from the local words for 'no'; Murrin-jari and Paikal-yung mean the 'men,' which also is the meaning of the native tribe-name Kuringgai — all from their distinctive tribal-Avords for ' man. Tribes of aborigines, in many parts of the world, call themselves ' the men.
2. Portrait of Bibaban ... ... ... Page 88
This is the intelligent aboriginal who was so useful to Mr. Threlkeld. The illustration is reproduced from the pencil sketch which was made by Mr. Agate.
3. Portrait of "Old Margaret"—an 'Awabakalin,' or woman of the Lake Macquarie sub-tribe ... Page 196
'Old Margaret' is the last survivor of the Awabakal. She is now living in her slab-hat on a piece of land near Lake Macquarie Heads, and supports herself by her own industry. Slio had the advantage of early training in an English home in the district ; she is respectable and respected.
Her features, as compared with those of other natives, show how much the type varies ; and yet she is an Australian of pure origin. She was born at Waiong, near the Hawkesbury River, and is now about 65 years of age.
4. Buntimai-'A Messenger' ... ... ... Page 212
This blackfellow is evidently on an errand which requires despatch. The 'possum cloak, the hair, and the general cast of the figure are true to nature, but the calves of the legs are stouter than usual.
