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came in a few day's time, which Gartuk bagged in the same 

 way. He waited until a third hurricane blew, and he 

 secured it in another bag, which he placed with the rest. 



Then Gartuk wanted to know where his enemies were, 

 and learnt that they were camped near Mukbilli. So he 

 started away carrying his skin bags. On getting within 

 view of Brambambult's camp, he opened his three bags 

 simultaneously and liberated all the cyclones. The elder 

 Brambambult caught hold of a dog-wood tree and told 

 his brother to get a secure hold of a wattle tree. Dok, a 

 frog, the mother of the two youths, went into the ground t 

 By this time the triple-cyclone was upon them, and the 

 two trees were swayed and twisted in every direction. 

 The wattle tree was torn out of the ground and carried 

 into the air, taking the younger Brambambult with it. The 

 dog-wood tree withstood the hurricane. 



When the fierceness of the storm had passed, the elder 

 brother let go his hold of the tree and Dok came out of the 

 ground. Upon searching about they could find no trace of 

 the younger boy. The mother took hold of one of her teats 

 and squirted out some milk, to determine the direction in 

 which her son had been swept by the hurricane. The elder 

 Brambambult then started off along the course indicated 

 by his mother's milk, and came to a place where his brother 

 had been fishing for eels, but had changed himself into a 

 small red-gum tree owing to the nankeen bird making such 

 weird noises. When the elder brother saw the tree he 

 recognized his brother by the way he was standing, being 

 similar to his attitude when he stood as a tree to watch 

 Ngaut-ngaut. Upon speaking to the tree, it regained the 

 human shape, and the two brothers went back and met 

 their mother. 



At some time subsequent to the events related in the 

 foregoing pages, the Brambambults took their place in the 



