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While we were walking to this cave one of my com- 

 panions made a detour to avoid a pool of the Glenelg River 

 while the other beckoned me to walk very quietly, crept up, 

 and looked over the bank. Nothing, however, was visible in 

 the water, and when we were some distance away he whis- 

 pered, "The alligator lives here." He did not, however, 

 mean an actual, living alligator, as that is regarded as a 

 very ordinary animal. 



The small Johnsonian crocodile abounds in the large 

 fresh waters. The large crocodile, commonly called 'alli- 

 gator, " inhabits the tidal waters of the Glenelg, and when 

 we were crossing this river one of these animals plunged into 

 the water just ahead of us. My two companions started 

 momentarily, then went on quite unconcerned, from which I 

 inferred that Arnu was regarded as the residence of some kind 

 of alligator spirit, honoured by the paintings and stones in 

 the cave. 



There are two other caves in the Wororra country in 

 which there are rock paintings. One of these is at Naian- 

 gunnin, a peninsula of land inhabited by the Wororra, and 

 lying on the north side of the mouth of the Prince Regent 

 River. This cave is reached from the Wororra mainland by 

 the kahlua, and contains paintings of "Wallangunda," a 

 supernatural being who lives in the sky. 



Hand and Foot Stencilling. 



The third cave with rock paintings is in a cliff at the head 

 of Port George IV. In this cave there are only the stencilled 

 outlines of hands and feet. On one occasion when a part) 7 of 

 Ngarrinyind men came in to the Port George IV. Mission 

 Station— Wororra country which they had not previously 

 visited — I found the newcomers leaving the imprints of their 

 hands upon the walls of this cave. The mouth was filled with 

 white clay, the clay worked into a paste with saliva, then 

 squirted from the lips over the hand placed against the rock. 

 When the hand was removed its outline appeared in the 

 natural colour of the rock. 



Sir George Grey Cave. 



When I questioned the Wororra men as to the cave 

 reported by Sir George Grey, near the upper falls of the 

 Glenelg River, they replied that that was Ngarrinyind coun- 

 try, to which they had never been, and did not know what 

 w r as there. 



Asked whether the Ngarrinyind men placed their men's 

 bones in a cave, the Wororra replied that the Ngarrinyind 

 and Wunambullu tribes, who live beyond the Glenelg and 



