themselves in the following way: from each shoulder down to the belt they drew two lines in the shape of a swallow's tail with white chalk; a white ring around both eyes, a stripe along the nose and several, two together, across the arms; This is exactly how the ancients painted the beard. Around the upper face, from one ear to the other, they glue a wreath of the downy feathers of the Welu bird, or of an eagle, which makes her look like a woman in her nightcap. As a paste for attaching the down feathers they use the blood from the genitals, to obtain which one of their number wounds the interior of the genitals. Each person ties a bunch of green twigs over each knee and takes a 3-foot-long thread in their hand. Equipped in this way, the Kuri or dance begins with some singing and beating the beat with their sticks.

The women ( 130 ) are unadorned and only take part in the dance in small numbers, at most three or four; but in men's opinion they seem to greatly increase the value of entertainment through this participation. The dances are very short, rarely lasting more than 5 minutes; On the other hand, [they] are much more graceful than those of the original inhabitants of Adelaide. The most popular dance, and certainly the best, consists of jumping from one side to the other and swinging the arms so that when the right foot is on the ground, the arm on the same side rises while the left falls. In order to maintain balance and achieve regularity of movement, they seem to hold the rope already mentioned with both hands, so that the distance between the arms must always remain the same. By the way, the whole body is in a graceful and obviously strenuous vibration. --

The newcomers reported that Kulkultu*, incited by another, Wirkalta*, had speared Mr. Darke(110) while he was satisfying a need, a statement that was entirely consistent with that given by Dark's traveling companions. They gave various answers to the question of the motive for this murder, but the most likely seems to be that the indigenous people wanted to own the clothing of the Europeans because they did not know or appreciate their food.

( 131 ) December, 25th, 1844. Christmas.
Today I had gathered with me a large number of black people, to whom I tried to tell the story of the birth of Christ and to explain its meaning, but it was impossible to maintain peace and quiet among such a crowd, so I fear that I have achieved little. After the meeting I had about a dozen children who I started teaching the letters to.

December 29th, 1844. Sunday.
I was unable to gather the indigenous people together today.