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Updated: June 17, 2025
Thereupon, being in a holy state like any other novice, he had retired to the bush in the customary manner to fast and meditate. "Whilst I was in the bush, my old father came out to me. He said, 'Come here to me, and then he showed me a piece of quartz-crystal in his hand. When I looked at it, he went down into the ground; and I saw him come up all covered with red dust.
Thus Tameamea declared the diamond mountain under the Tabu, because an Englishman, finding there a piece of quartz-crystal, considered it to be diamond; and the King, finding these were of great value, supposed he possessed in the mountain an inexhaustible treasure, till he discovered his mistake, and the Tabu was taken off.
Among the Ta-ta-thi tribe of New South Wales, the rain-maker breaks off a piece of quartz-crystal and spits it towards the sky; the rest of the crystal he wraps in emu feathers, soaks both crystal and feathers in water, and carefully hides them. In the Keramin tribe of New South Wales the wizard retires to the bed of a creek, drops water on a round flat stone, then covers up and conceals it.
Koldewey curiously speaks of the saw-blades as 'palaeolithic. They are, of course, nothing of the sort. Characteristics: flint, chert, obsidian, green and red jasper, and quartz-crystal flakes, arrowheads, cores, and saw-blades. This ware is often very fine, so much so as to look as if wheelmade.
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