 | George Grey - 1840 - 170 pages
...the family, and this sign is handed down from father to son, a certain mysterious connection existing between a family and its ko-bong, so that a member of the family will never kill an animal of the species to which his ko-bong belongs, should he find it asleep ; indeed... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1847 - 602 pages
...Australians adopts some animal or plant as a kind of badge or armorial emblem, or, as they call it, their kobong. A certain mysterious connection exists...kobong, so that a member of the family will not kill an animal or pluck any plant of the species to which his kobong belongs, except under particular circumstances.... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1847 - 602 pages
...adopts some animal or plant as a kind of badge or armorial emblem, or, as they call it, their hobong. A certain mysterious connection exists between a family...kobong, so that a member of the family will not kill an animal or pluck any plant of the species to which his kobong belongs, except under particular circumstances.... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1851 - 318 pages
..."Each family adopts some animal or plant as a kind of badge or armorial emblem, or, as they call it, their kobong. A certain mysterious connection exists...kobong, so that a member of the family will not kill an animal or pluck any plant of the species to which its kobong belongs, except under particular circumstances.... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1854 - 100 pages
...Australians adopts some animal or plant, as a kind of badge or armorial emblem, or, as they call it, its kobong. A certain mysterious connection exists between...kobong, so that a member of the family will not kill an animal, or pluck any plant of the species to which "his kobong belongs, except under particular... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1860 - 644 pages
...same family name. Each family adopts some animal or plant , as a kind of badge or armorial embleme (as their kobong). A certain mysterious connection...kobong , so that a member of the family will not kill an animal or pluck any plant of the species of which its kobong belongs except under particulars circumstances.... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1860 - 1130 pages
...some animal or plant, äs a kind of badge or armorial emblemo (äs their kobong). A certain mystcrious connection exists between a family and its kobong , so that a member of the l'amily will not kill an animal or pluck any plant of the speeies of which it» kobong belongs except... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - 1871 - 562 pages
...Each family among the Australians adopts some animal or plant, as a kind of badge or armorial emblem (Kobong). A certain mysterious connection exists between...Kobong, so that a member of the family will not kill an animal or pluck any plant of the species, to which his Kobnng belongs, except under particular circumstances... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1875 - 646 pages
...however, does not seem to me at all probable. 'A certain mysterious connection exists between ' the family and its kobong, so that a member of the ' family will never kill an animal of the species to which ' his kobong belongs, should he find it asleep ; indeed,... | |
 | Edward Micklethwaite Curr - 1886 - 494 pages
...likely that these have been named after the families than that the families have been named after them. A certain mysterious connection exists between a family...and its Kobong, so that a member of the family will never kill an animal of the species to which his Kobong belongs should he find it asleep ; indeed,... | |
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A certain mysterious connection exists between a family and its kobong, so that a member of the family will never kill an animal of the species, to which his kobong belongs, should he find it asleep ; indeed he always kills it reluctantly, and never without... 
