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and Buduambang - a wild Duck, these
& many others are names applied to the
Aborigines,and thereby a relationship is
supposed to be produced, not in the
[words crossed out] slightest degree owing to any resemblance of certain
animals, but altogether arbitrary. Thus
the Kangaroo is related to the [indecipherable]
an eagle hawk & so forth & two names
descending from the mother alternately succeed
each other so that the grand child bears
always the name of the grandmother. The
Oppussum for instance is mother to the
Kangaroo rat & the Kangaroo rat again [indecipherable]
the Oppossum. Some of their names consit-
ute the nearest relationship so that they
call each other brothers, others produce a
kind of relationship & they are called by them
little brothers or little sisters, that is, rel-
ated in a less degree. Such a relationship
may exist where there is not the slightest
natural relationship to be [found?] for some generations.
But as to inter marriages between such ima-
ginary relatives they are looked upon just
as unseemly as if the nearest relatives

and Buduambang - a wild Duck, these
& many others are names applied to the
Aborigines,and thereby a relationship is
supposed to be produced, not in the
slightest degree owing to any resemblance of certain
animals, but altogether arbitrary. Thus
the Kangaroo is related to the [indecipherable]
an eagle hawk & so forth & two names
descending from the mother alternately succeed
each other so that the grand child bears
always the name of the grandmother. The
Oppussum for instance is mother to the
Kangaroo rat & the Kangaroo rat again [indecipherable]
the Oppossum. Some of their names consit-
ute the nearest relationship so that they
call each other brothers, others produce a
kind of relationship & they are called by them
little brothers or little sisters, that is, rel-
ated in a less degree. Such a relationship
may exist where there is not the slightest
natural relationship to be [found?] for some generations.
But as to inter marriages between such ima-
ginary relatives they are looked upon just
as unseemly as if the nearest relatives