An Australians notion OF his


state after Death.
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In a recently published work, 'Eyre's
Jotirnal, may be found the following:


Mr.. Moorhouse, who has taken great
pains in his inquiries among the nations
around Adelaide, upon questions Of their
nature, states that they believe in soul or
spirit--ifpafukuiga --seperate and distinct
from the body, which at death
goes TO the west, 10 large pit, where the
souls Of all men 60. When all are dead,
the souls will return to their former place
of residence, 60 to the graves of the forss-
ken bodies, and inquire, care these the
bodies that we formerly inhabited?" The
bodies will reply, ave are not dead, but
still living" The souls and bodies will
not be united; the former will live in trees
during the day, and at night alight on the
ground, and eat grubs, lizards, frogs and
kangaroo rats, but not vegetable food of
any description. The souls are never
again to die, but will remain about the
size of boy = years old. The most sin
gular belief-said also to be generals,
that the white people Of Australia are the
souls and bodies Of the black natives who
have risen from the dead, and returned to
revisit the scenes and persons familiar to
them in the former state Of being. But the
aborigines are quite astonished that the
new comers do not seem to recognize Ell
ther the scenes or the persons-not know
even their parents or their children--or the
place where they lived and died. They
suppose however, that the change must ef-
feet an entire oblivion Of former things.