464 A. C. Stone: 



The Le(/end Accounting for the Teeth-Jikp Shhu/les oj Lake 

 Werringurr. 



The old Weri'inbool had two daughters, whom he left at his 

 camp. The two nepheAvs of Doowan, after killing Werrinbool, 

 went back, and, finding them, they took them for their wives. 

 They then all went a day's journey, and passing through some 

 scrub came upon some kangaroos feeding. They told their 

 wives to remain there for a while, whilst they went after the 

 kangaroos and killed them for food. When they were near the 

 kangaroos they heard a tree falling, and they wondered why, 

 but when they got back to their wives they saw the fallen 

 trees, and then they knew that it would not be wise to keep 

 them as wives. So they said to them. " Let me put the bundles 

 on your backs," and as the wives, consenting, stooped down for 

 the purpose, the brothers at a preconcerted signal struck the 

 unsuspecting wives with their waddies (" Gunies "), and dashed 

 out their brains and teeth and jaws, which accounts for the 

 teeth and jaw-like shingles found at Lake Werringiarr. 



Kangaroo or Murdering Lake (" Dinger " ). 



Many years ago a shepherds hut stood at " Wherpoo " 

 (where carbuncle on trunk of big redgum struck), the entrance 

 to Lake Boga. One night the natives sought to obtain some 

 cheap nmtton by spearing, but the shepherds in charge (2) 

 became alarmed, and, as was the custom in those old days, 

 used their firearms to such effect that " Nyarramin's " uncle 

 (Peter) was mortally wounded, and died, and was buried at 

 ■■ Dai-noowongatch " (N.E. bank of Boga). The two shepherds 

 were transferred to Kangaroo Lake, as it was feared that the 

 natives would seek reprisals, but this even was of no avail, as 

 the vengeance of the tribe overtook them. For one fine after- 

 noon the two men, unsuspicious of impending danger, were sit- 

 ting upon a fallen log, reading, with their firearms on the 

 ground beside them, when without warning of any description 

 they were speared to death. After the killing of the shepherds 

 one of the natives nearly met his own death. He seized one of 

 the guns, and dashing the butt of the gun upon the ground 

 exploded the weapon, the charge going between the man's 



