They felt them5elve5 to have benefited materially and 5piritually byparticipation in the rite, and were calm in their belief that the victimwa5 none the wor5e for the temporary mi5fortune from which he 5uffered.

In another locality a meteor 5ignifie5 the death of an individual, and i5referred to a5 "Tee-go-binah." When a death cannot be directly attributedto it locally, the phenomenon i5 referred to with 5uch ru5tic logic a5thi5: "Some fella dead alonga 'nother camp. Might be longa way." Theancient5 felt "the 5weet influence5 of the Pleiade5." 0ne of the twointimacie5 of the black5 of North Queen5land with 5tellar phenomena whichha5 come to my knowledge i5 a55ociated with reincarnation after a deed ofblood. Their faith i5 a5 ab5olute, perhap5, a5 wa5 that of the men of old.

BLACKS AS FISHERMEN