It Is Thus Often Very Difficult To Find Out The Names Of Particular Natives, And Strangers Would Make Many Mistakes, Imagining That They Were Putting Down The Name, When In Reality They Were Marking Some Phrase, Signifying That His Name Could Not Be Mentioned By The One Applied To.

They have no objection to meet each other after the ceremony, nor do they decline speaking, but there is

This peculiarity in their conduct that if one gives food, or any thing else to the other, it is either laid on the ground for him to take, or is given through the intervention of a third person, in the gentlest and mildest manner possible, whereas to another native it would be jerked, perhaps much in the same way that a bone is thrown to a dog. There are other instances in which the names of natives are never allowed to be spoken, as those of a father or mother-in-law, of a son-in-law and some cases arising from a connection with each other's wives. In speaking, therefore, of one another, or introducing persons to distant natives, a very round about way of describing them has often to be adopted, yet so intimately are neighbouring tribes acquainted with the peculiar relations subsisting between the members of each, that there is rarely any difficulty in comprehending who the individual is that is alluded to. Among the Adelaide tribes, there is no circumstance but death that makes them unwilling to mention the name of any of their acquaintances, and this cause of unwillingness I believe extends equally all over the continent.

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