After dancing with these for some time, they went forward towards the Moorunde natives, who sprang upon their feet, and seizing their weapons, speared two or three of the strangers in the shoulder, and all was over.

I was anxious to have got hold of the rude figure to have a drawing made of it, but it had been instantly destroyed.

The standards I procured.
This dance took place between nine and ten in the morning, and was quite unlike any thing I had seen before.

A stranger might have supposed it to be a religious ceremony, and the image the object of worship.

Such, however, I am convinced was not the case, although I believe it to have had some connection with their superstitions, and that it was regarded in the light of a charm.
Before the country was occupied by Europeans, the natives say that this dance was frequently celebrated, but that latterly it has not been much in use.