"The child is brought up with great care.... Should it cry, it is passed from one person to another and caressed and soothed, and the father will frequently nurse it for several hours together. When the child commences to walk, the father gives it a name."[687] They are long suckled--sometimes up to five or six years of age. A boy "when weaned, accompanies his father upon short excursions, upon which occasion the father takes every opportunity to instruct his son. For instance, if they arrive at a place concerning which they have any tradition, it is told to the child if old enough to understand it. Or he shows him how to procure this or that animal, or other article of food, in the easiest way."[688] We see here that the tie between father and child is a very close one. The father nurses the child when it is small, and educates it when it is bigger. Affection, care and kind treatment are stated here as everywhere else. And again we read: "If the father dies before a child is born, the child is put to death by the mother."[689] This marks again how important is the father's part in bringing up a child. [687] Encounter Bay tribes (Narrinyeri), Meyer, _loc. cit._, pp. 186, 187. [688] Encounter Bay tribes (Narrinyeri), Meyer, _loc. cit._, p. 187. [689] _Ibid._, p. 186. Wyatt says of the Adelaide tribe that "they display strong affection towards each other," which is shown especially in a "great fondness for children."[690] [690] _Loc. cit._, p. 162. We read about the Port Lincoln tribes: "Both sexes are very fond of their children."[691] [691] Chas. Wilhelmi, p. 181. Howitt, speaking of infanticide among the Murring tribe, adds: "Yet they are very fond of their offspring, and very indulgent to those they keep, rarely striking them, and a mother would give all the food she had to her children, going hungry herself."[692] In several statements on infanticide it is said that no difference was made between boys and girls.[693] Here again we have a strong assertion of parental love, and of the kind treatment the children enjoy. [692] _Nat. Tr._, p. 748; informant: H. Williams. [693] _Ibid._, pp. 748-750.