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71 Mr. Assistant Protector Sievwriglit describes a woman being cut open, the blood drank, part of the flesh eaten raw, and the other roasted. Dr. Thomson sent the head of a baked child to the Edin burgh Museum. The Murray natives never ate the head, but threw that into the river. An old colonist informed us that a lady friend of his was a great favourite with the Yarra Blacks, from a belief that she was the risen appearance of one of their own people ; con sequently, she had secrets told her that were withheld from others. One day a lubra came to her with something under her blanket; she then produced a piece of a cooked child, requesting the lady not to tell. Mr. Sutherland was our informant about a cannibal scene, when a party was after poor Mr. Gellibraud in 1837. The Barrabool tube had captured an old man and a young girl belonging to the Lake Colac tribe, whom they had unjustly charged with the murder of their friend Gellibrand. The child was killed and roasted, and the fat employed for macassar oil. Some of the warm flesh was laughingly offered to the Englishmen ; Dr. Cotter, we believe, brought away part of the thigh as an evidence of the fact. Half a dozen children, left as a pledge of friendship with the wild Gipps Land tribe, were killed and devoured by their careful guar dians. In Mr. Fawkner’s Geelong Adventures of April, 1841, is a notice of some such feast, when two lubras affectionately tendered a choice smoking morsel to the Protector. WEAPONS. Mr. Tuckey in 1803, considered the native’s spear harmless against the kangaroo. But the weapon is not to he despised in the hand of a strong man. Upon the Murray the light spear is called a Kiko ; the oval shield, a Hieleman ; the Wommera or throwing stick, applied to the spear as a lever for accelerating its motion, a Nga-waouk ; the short, knobbed stick, a Bwirris. Buckley tells us that the Yarra Blacks called the jagged spear a Karnwell; the hunting spear, a Daar ; the Boomerang, a Wangaara; the two shields, Malka and Seaugwell. The latter is narrow, with a knob, and is used offensively. The Malka, to ward off blows, is two or
