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3. Wirnbullain, — Duan, the flying-squirrel, followed a 

 kangaroo from somewhere near Stawell, and it ran away 

 northerly down the Wimmera River, forming the present 

 watercourse. The kangaroo grazed a long time about Lake 

 Hindmarsh, eating the grass quite bare, and formed the 

 lake. It went on and grazed about Lake Albacutya where 

 another lake was formed in the same way. Prom there it 

 travelled on to Lake Wonga, where it was overtaken and 

 killed by Duan. While he was cooking the kangaroo, 

 "Wirnbullain, the tarantula, came up and commenced fight- 

 ing with Duan. The latter was getting the worst of it 

 and climbed up into a tree out of the way. Wirnbullain 

 commenced gnawing the base of the tree, and cut it down 

 with a few bites. 



When Duan felt the tree falling, he bounded or flew into 

 another tree close by. Wirnbullain proceeded to cut this 

 tree down too, and Duan flew into another one. Then 

 Wirnbullain called his two daughters to come and stand at 

 the butt of the tree in which Duan had taken refuge, until 

 he himself cut clown all the surrounding trees for some 

 distance. Wirnbullain next commenced cutting down the 

 tree occupied by Duan, and as there were no more trees 

 close enough for him to fly into, he was caught by Wirn- 

 bullain and his daughters, who killed him. They carried 

 his body to their camp, as well as the carcase of the kan- 

 garoo which he had caught and feasted on them for several 

 days. 



The Brambambults were nephews of Duan — his sister's 

 children. When Duan did not come back to his camp in a 

 reasonable time, these two young fellows, accompanied by 

 their mother, Dok, the frog, started away along his tracks. 

 On reaching Lake Hindmarsh, they left their mother there, 

 because she was tired. Going farther on, they met some 

 ants, mara, carrying Duan's hair. He wore long hair and 



X— Oct. 5, 1904. 



