526 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
shown in the maps as Innamincka—properly Yidni-mingka— 
meaning ‘‘ Thou become a hole,” referring to the killing by 
a Mura-mura of an armed party which pursued him. His 
blows struck them into the ground forming a hole, about 
which the rocks are the men of the party, who, having been 
painted black, thus perpetvated the colour in the rocks which 
they have become. 
LEeGenp 1. 
Ngura-tu lu-tu luru,) a Yaurorka Legend. 
Ngura-tu lu-turulu was a Mura-mura belonging to 
Kilyalpa,®? who went on his wanderings. He came to a 
pala-tira,> where he saw women beating out seeds and 
cleaning them. As he came nearer to them they saw him, 
and surrounded the stranger. They looked at him inquisi- . 
tively from head to foot, and could not help laughing at his 
crooked legs and arms, nor could they help being surprised 
at the light-coloured flies which accompanied him, because 
those with them were black. Then they began to discuss 
where he came from and who he was, for not one of the 
women knew him. But as they thought that an old woman 
who was a little distance away might know him, they called 
her. Hastening to them she recognised him as being her 
ngatamura,° and took him on her lap and sobbed unceasingly, 
‘“palingi, palingi.”® When she had wept over him suf- 
ficiently, she sent him to her husband, his yenku, who was 
in the camp with the other men eating paua. Before he 
reached the camp he could hear the men grinding the seed 
which the women had collected and cleaned. He thought to 
himself “that must be agood stone. I wishI had it.” Then 
he went to his yenku’s camp, and when he had spoken te 
him he made his own camp near at hand, and lay as if to 
sleep. As he lay there all the people camped there collected 
'Negura-tu lu-tu luru is “ crooked leg,” from ngura, the leg, or, pro- 
perly, the shank, both in Yaourorka and Dieri. “Tu lu-ti-tu luru,” in the 
former, is “round, bent, crooked; ” in Dieri “ pirha-pirha.’’ This Mura- 
murais also called by another name, “ tayi-tazyana, meaning a “ grinding- 
stone in mud.” ‘ Tayi” or “marunga ” is the slab of stune on which the 
seed is ground for food, and called in Dieri ‘‘ngurdu,”’ and “taupa’’ is 
“ damp earth or mud ;”’ in Dievi, “‘ mita-pada,” ‘‘ mita”’ being ‘‘ earth,” 
and ‘pada’ “damp or moist.”’ 
2 Kilyalpa is from “ki lyera,” meaning “loose sandy land, without 
vegetation.” °Paia is ‘bird’? The meaning of “tira” is not known 
to us. 
4 Paua is the seed of plants used for food ; for instance, of tbe Claytonia. 
5Ngatamura (UDieri) is the relation of a boy to his father and father’s 
sister. 
-6 Palingi (yantruwinta) is the equivalent term for “ingatamura.” 
