60 THE ABORIGINES OF THE LOWER MURRAY, LOWER 
of civilization 
been a chronic source of annoyance to them, from the remotest 
period of which they have any knowledge, and although they have 
waged a continuous war against them, even from one generation 
to another, still the filthy pests have held their own. 
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fleas, although of other kinds of parasites common to the filthy 
portion ilization they possess legion. These latter have 
the poo borigines continue persistently to scratch, w 
indubitably induces a creepy feeling of disgust to permeate the 
person of any cleanly inclined beholder. These indigenous para- 
sites would be borne by the aborigines pretty well, as every 
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he aborigines imagine the sun to be a large fire, kindled in the 
tyrrily (sky) by Ngondenont (their good spirit) daily, accounting 
r its origin in the following fashion :—In the lon and 
there were not any people on the tungie (earth), it being inhabited 
by beasts and birds only. One day during this period of semi- 
darkness, a kurwie (emu) and a koortinie (native companion) 
© by the good spirit has never been broken to the present time. 
They prove this quaint myth of theirs by pointing out that in the 
