[772] Nor. Tr., pp. 542, 504.
[773] Mathews, Ethnol. Notes on the Aboriginal Tribes of N.S. Wales and Victoria, in Journal and Proc. of the Roy. Soc. of N.S. Wales, XXXVIII, p. 287.
[774] Strehlow, I, pp. 15 ff. Thus, according to Strehlow, the dead live in an island in the Arunta theory, but according to Spencer and Gillen, in a subterranean place. It is probable that the two myths coexist and are not the only ones. We shall see that even a third has been found. On this conception of an island of the dead, see Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 498; Schürmann, Aborig. Tr. of Port Lincoln, in Woods, p. 235; Eylmann, p. 189.
[775] Schulze, p. 244.
[776] Dawson, p. 51.
[777] In these same tribes evident traces of a more ancient myth will be found, according to which the dead live in a subterranean place (Dawson, ibid.).
[778] Taplin, The Narrinyeri, pp. 18 f.; Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 473; Strehlow, I, p. 16.
[779] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 498.
[780] Strehlow, I, p. 16; Eylmann, p. 189; Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 473.
[781] These are the spirits of the ancestors of a special clan, the clan of a certain poisonous gland (Giftdrüsenmänner).