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Giwa prepared himself for the ascent, but on looking 

 round at his dogs, he asked the youths what he should do 

 with these. They suggested that he should put them in his 

 shoulder bag and bring them with him. He adopted their 

 advice, and commenced climbing the pole, but owing to 

 handling the emu fat as stated above, his hands were greasy 

 and slippery. However, after much struggling, he managed 

 to reach within a few feet of the top, when the youths 

 caught hold of the pole and turned it rapidly round. This 

 had the effect of causing Giwa to lose his hold, and he fell 

 heavily to the ground on his back, killing his dogs and injur- 

 ing his spine. As he lay there, he sang a song while the 

 youths were enjoying their feast on the top of the rock. 

 This song has to be sung to the present clay, when anyone 

 is allowed to eat emu flesh for the first time. Giwa walked 

 with a great stoop for some days after his fall, which is the 

 reason that the new moon always appears bent. [Won- 

 gaibon Tribes.] 



The Y aroma. — This is a creature closely resembling a 

 man, but of greater stature, and having hair all over the 

 body. Its mouth is large, which enables it to swallow a 

 blackfellow whole, without mastication. There are gener- 

 ally two of these monsters together, and they stand back 

 to back, so that they can see in every direction. Their 

 method of locomotion is by a series of long jumps, and at 

 every jump their genital appendages strike the ground, 

 making a loud, sudden noise, like the report of a gun, or 

 the cracking of a stockwhip. 



Yarromas have short legs and large, long feet, of a differ- 

 ent shape to the feet of a human being. When one of these 

 monsters is heard in the vicinity of a native camp during 

 the evening, the people keep silent and rub their genitalia 

 with their hands, and puff or spit in his direction. Some 

 of the headmen or doctors shout out the name of some 



