74 THE ABORIGINES OF THE LOWER MURRAY, ETC. 
or manner, as the few following examples will clearly enough 
show :— 
Mirmile Mirnew Squint-eyed. 
Kyup Mirnew One-eyed. 
Yandy Murnangin ..........02... Left-handed. 
‘Mirmile Tchantchew ............ Crooked Nose. 
Cowendurn The Creeper. 
Walpa Chinangin  ..........0000. Burnt Foot. 
Bokeroin . The Breaker. 
Waikeroo Woorinew............... Ugly Mouth. 
There are numerous other names which doubtless arose from 
equally perceptible features, but being rather objectionable. I do 
not care to quote them. 
Names of places generally arise from local features, or from 
Some occurrence vivid enough to be worthy of note. Below are a 
few examples by way of illustration :-— 
CMittos Beaks. icici, cic End of Gum Timber. 
Workin: Doloi.c.. cia. aig se Black Stump. 
ORO: Acc ils iit e Sun. 
Bocoin Tcherik «..0305.0.c0ec0cc.. Broken Reed. 
Mirmile Maroong ............... Crooked Pine. 
In the aboriginal alphabet, there are neither f nor «, p,being 
used for the former and & for the latter. 
In concluding this paper, I may venture to say that these tribes, 
when I first became acquainted with them, were numerical 
; € white man’s universal civilizing agent, rum, however, with 
its attendant evils, has unfortunately reduced this once athleti¢ 
and numerous people, until now not a tithe of the original num- 
bers remain, and the scanty remnant are but sorry specimens of 
the muscular athletes from whom they are descended. 
