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Melbourne
Sept.27.06
My dear Howitt,
Very many thanks for the map. After you had gone I felt, in Biblical language,"like an owl in the desert or a Pelican in the wilderness"- in other words I very much missed our evening talks & the discussion of things Ethnological as, apart from you & Gillen, there is no one in Australia to discuss such matters with. It is surely getting near the time when we might expect to hear something more of your conflict with the enemy. There is one point to which I wish you would turn you attention. A.L. now asserts that, if I remember rightly, the majority or at all ??? a very large number of the 'moiety' names (Matteri. etc) of the tribes are known to be those of animals. He has of course raked his evidence together from all
