If the alleged murderer be present, the bier is carried round by this influence, and one of the branches made to touch him.

Upon this a battle is sure to ensue either immediately, or in the course of a day or two.
At the time of burial the body is removed from the bier, and deposited, with the head to the west, in a grave from four to six feet deep.
Children under four years are not buried for some months after death.
They are carefully wrapped up, carried upon the back of the mother by day, and used as a pillow by night, until they become quite dry and mummy-like, after which they are buried, but the ceremony is not known to Mr.Moorhouse.
In the Encounter Bay neighbourhood, four modes of disposing of the dead obtain, according to Mr.Meyer:--old persons are buried; middle-aged persons are placed in a tree, the hands and knees being brought nearly to the chin, all the openings of the body, as mouth, nose, ears, etc.

being previously sewn up, and the corpse covered with mats, pieces of old cloth, nets, etc.

The corpse being placed in the tree, a fire is made underneath, around which the friends and relatives of the deceased sit, and make lamentations.

In this situation the body remains, unless removed by some hostile tribe, until the flesh is completely wasted away, after which the skull is taken by the nearest relative for a drinking cup.
The third mode is to place the corpse in a sitting posture, without any covering, the face being turned to the eastward, until dried by the sun, after which it is placed in a tree.