Note 162 — APPENDIX. No. VI.

I have before stated (Superstitions, p. 270.) that aggry is a generic name, probably exotic, of the derivation of which the Negroes are wholly ignorant. It is remarkable that the Boorooms call these beads sikka koonkoorie, and never use the common word for bead (aboroo,) when they speak of them: this name imports their value (sikka being gold) and one would fancy something connected with their locality, Koonkoorie being a range of hills seven days northward of Kong, (see p. 182.) but I never could obtain the least explanation on this subject from the natives.