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became exhausted, and in dan<;'er of drowning. He was rescued 

 by his friends, and being then very cold and unconscious a 

 fire Avas made to warm him, after which they went back to 

 the camp. During the night a breeze sprang up and fanned 

 the embers into a bUize, with the result that the reeds and 

 rashes speedily caught tire, and the island was totally de- 

 stroyed. 



An Account of "The Foij that Killed,'" or "Poison Fog." 

 (" Yathunge jaJi.'). 



Perhaps about 80 to 100 years ago a swiftly-killing disease 

 {possibly small-pox) killed a great number of the members of 

 the Boga tribe (" Gorrmjanyuk "). The idea was that it came 

 like a fog, low-lying over the land. Up to a few years ago 

 numbers of the skulls of the victims were to be seen round the 

 banks of Lake Baker (" Boomberdill '), and the awful fear of 

 the poison-fog lasted up to very recent years. (Natives say 

 previous to small-^^ox.) 



" Gourrii," or Battle of Blood (Railway Station Site, Lake 



Boga). 



Many years ago a very sharp bit of fighting took place on 

 the site of the railway station at Lake Boga, between the 

 Tyntynder and Boga tribes, and in consequence of the quantity 

 of blood spilt it was called the " Battle of Blood," or " Gourrk." 



The Lake Boga Aboriginal Legend to Account for the Kedcap 

 Robin's Redbreast and the Mountains of the Moon. 



When the world was young, an aboriginal and his wife had 

 living with them the little brother of the wife. The husband 

 was a very greedy and selfish man. and very much grudged 

 the food which the wife gave to the little boy, so much so 

 that the only food the little fellow got was the scraps of meat 

 surreptitiously given by his sister. One day the man came 

 buck to his camp sooner than he was expected from hunting, 

 and discovered the boy nearh^ choking in his endeavour to 

 swallow the meat before the husband should be near enough 



