28.] has produced the evidence of Henderson, writing in 1829-1830, for the belief in 'Piame' or Byamee, or Baiame.

[OBSERVATIONS AN THE COLONIES OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND VAN DIEMAN'S LAND, p.

147.] In 1904 Mr.Howitt gave a great mass of evidence for the belief in what he calls an 'All Father': in many dialects styled by various names meaning 'Our Father,' dwelling in or above the sky, and often receiving the souls of blacks who have been 'good.' These ideas are not derived, Mr.Howitt holds, from Europeans, or developed out of ancestor-worship, which does not exist in the tribes.

The belief is concealed from women, but communicated to lads at their initiation.

[Howitt, NATIVE TRIBES OF SOUTH-EAST AUSTRALIA, pp.