NORTH QUEENSLAND KTHNOGRAPIIY — HOTll. .379 



bobo wudye-go nangarrgaralaya guia nulu ni;ila-n yoku 

 «arth veliPiiiently will shake and lie guilty-at wood 



mulbango karbalbal. Clura dana wauwu-ngai warimanati- 



Hrmly holds. And they spirits haviug disappeared- 



budo, bobo kaiia nangaren nulu yoku dubil gura kadara 

 iodeed, earth first sliook he wood lets go and comes 



gura dirait)ggur-be nielbi meril wutchi-ngai warka-rigamu 

 and old men-to news tells spirits altogether 



wamega gura yeudu damaiga nangareu-budo. 



having seen and one having speared (earth) having shaken-indeed. 



Meielil gura dana wauwu nima-ngu kadarai : nayun 

 (He) tells (them) also they spirits gsave-to came those (only) 

 gari yendu ; wauwu peba ngamu gura dauuu-gai daaaogao- 

 not others : spirits father, mother and friends theni- 



gala nulu uadetchi : gura nulu wauwu yendu damai 

 indeed he saw : and he spirit another speared 



nayun dauun bama yendu-me. Gura dana kanaigo bania 

 this one friend men others-of. And they before men 

 duyu bantchentchi gnra bobo dubil. Ngando-ngai bobo nayun 

 corpse waited at aufl place leave. Women place this 

 gari-budondo waminda, dudan iiamodir-be galmba gari 



not at all should come to, road the same-on also not 



kada-nda, purai galmba gari puda-nda bobo tabul-ngau. 

 should travel, water also not should drink, place 'tabu'-with. 



Murga namo-dir tabul dirainggur pudaral ; ngandongai 

 Only there-with tabu old men drink : women 



pudanda danangan kundanda, dana namo-ngubudo yinil, 

 would di-ink them would kill, they therefore-indeed fright, 

 dana netchin dudan yendu-me dadara : nmrga dirainggur 

 they always road other-on go : only old men 



dudan-go dadara. Gura duyu mokul matega kana, dana 

 road-on go. And corpse old has become first, they 



moari guru walar duyu-wego wokelkil gura kadagai 



hair and beard corpse-on account of cut off and property 

 nangu-nga bauwalal, gari warka-ngamu, mundal-go bera. 

 his-of burn, not all together, some-only of course. 



Ngando-ngai galmba moari wokil. Moari kana wokega garko 

 Women also hair cut. Hair once have cut then 



<lana ungga batcheltchil warka-ngamu duyu-ngu. Gura 

 they weeping cry all together the dead-for. And 



kabir-kabir belumayar-ngai dana yinil manaya, danangan 



girls widows they fright become, them 



manega-mu, dana moari wokega. Dana moai-i wokega dana 

 would take, they hair having cut. They hair having cut thev 



