side of the encampment, facing a direction in which their country was situated.
In order to fix as accurately as possible these positions of the camps of a related group, I got some of the Kurnai to point out on a piece of ground where various members of a family group, whom I would name, would camp. From their statements I formed a diagram, and from it I extracted the following particulars. The starting-point is supposed to be the camp of a man and his wife. The directions are given approximately by compass bearings, and the distances by paces. The nature of the ground required that the encampment should extend in a certain direction.
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| 1. Man and wife. | |
| 2. Married son of 1. | 5 paces from 1. |
| 3. Father and mother of 1. | 20 paces from 1. |
| 4. Brother of 1 and wife. | 20 paces from 1. |
| 5. Father and mother of the wife of 1. | 100 paces from 1. |
| 6. Married son of 5. | The same distance. |
| 7. The married brother of the mother of 1 | 10 paces each from 1. |
| 8. The married sister of the father of 1. | |
If the sister of the wife of 1 had been present with her husband, they could have camped anywhere near, so long as not actually close to 1. If there had been a married daughter of 1 there, her husband would have been in the same position as regards her mother as the wife of 5 was as to 1, and must have camped at a similar distance. A Brogan who stands in the relation of brother to 1 could occupy a position suitable to that relation. Owing to the nature of the ground all the huts could face the sunrise, which is a favourite aspect. | |
In the camps of the Kurnai, custom regulates the position of the individual. The husband and wife would sleep on the left-hand side of the fire, the latter behind it,
