Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 19 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 19The aborigines in whose country Port Darwin is situate are the Larraki'a, of whom Mr. Paul Foelsche has given some interesting particulars in a previous paper. They inhabit a tract of land embracing the seaboard from Shoal Bay to Southport, together with some portion of the country west of that port. At the forty-six mile on the railway line we pass their southern border, and going through a neutral belt of some eight or ten miles, strictly preserved and upon which none trespass without good reason, at near Rum Jungle enter into the territory of the Awarra, whose southern boundary is the Howley. At about Fountain Read commences the country of the Aggrakúndi, extending to the Union and perhaps to near Pine Creek. Beyond Pine Creek to the Katharine are the Adowen (?) and Mennagi (?). To the east of the Larraki'a, from Marrakai cattle station on the Adelaide River to Shoal Bay and thence along the seaboard to beyond Escape Cliffs, are the Wúlnars, and east of these again and abutting on the Aggrakúndi are the Mary River (? Berigurruk) and Alligator River tribes, the country of the latter extending south as far as the Eveleen.These districts are subdivided among the several families of the tribes. I am of opinion that each family has its own proper name, but I have no evidence that this is the case, nor do I find totems, or that there is any restriction as to food. The laws governing marriage, too, remain to be discovered, I have little information except that in certain instances, where the individuals were pointed out, a would have been the wife of 6 had a been born a girl, or b the wife of c were to female A Larraki'a stated, in the first instance, that the issue was from a common forefather, b being descended in male line from one wife, and a descended in female line (until a) from another wife. These cases may simply mean that the parents arranged a marriage before the birth of the infants, sex being favorable.These natives are tall, well-set, and of an excellent carriage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.