movement their legs were outstretched to the utmost. They then leaped round in the circumference of the circle, and sometimes advanced in the same grotesque manner for a few yards, whilst their shouts became momentarily louder, and derived an additional wildness from the shrill voices and the ceaseless drumming of the women, who constituted the orchestra to this extraordinary ballet. A strange excitement soon became apparent in the gestures and countenances of the dancers. The gradually increasing uproar was accompanied with a fierce brandishing of waddies, as if they menaced some visionary foe; and their voices rose to the pitch of a loud and simultaneous howl, which ever and anon ceased all of a sudden, and was succeeded by the deep silence of the forest. The suddenness with which the outcry was followed by an interval of perfect silence constituted the remarkable feature of the performance. After a short interval for breathing, the dance recom menced, and was continued in the same manner for two hours, during which the performers underwent the most violent exercises of their voices and limbs, whilst the perspiration ran down their naked and shining bodies. At length they had worked themselves up to a state of ex citement bordering on frenzy, their eyes flashed, and the expression of their countenances became almost diabolical. Having no desire to witness the last of this exhibition, we took our departure. The hour was past twelve, and “ a fine moonlight nightbut not until we had reached the town did we cease to hear the loud and prolonged howl, and the drumming orchestra of the corrobory. The language and many of the usages of the Austra lian aborigines differ at almost every part of the coast •