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away hunting, the camp being in charge of a few women who 

 were attending upon a young mother and her newly born babe ; 

 the infant was exposed to the sun upon an opossum cloak, when 

 an eagle swooped down and carried the helpless child away to the 

 summit of some neighbouring cliffs. Some of the men soon return- 

 ing, at once scaled the precipice, they discovered the remains of 

 the infant, and the eagle, satiated, drinking from a pool of water 

 in the rocks. The remains were collected and buried amidst great 

 lamentation especially on the part of the women. The name given 

 to this water hole on the cliff in consequence of this event was 

 " Kau-oola-patamba, the place where the eagle drank." I believe 

 the above to be as genuine a list as can now be obtained, but 

 must caution any one who may wish to follow up the subject, to 

 be careful in securing good authority in the investigation. The 

 "man with the wooden leg," is an instance as to how a native 

 name can be formed, and I am aware that another name in the 

 same locality is the combination of parts of the names of three 

 men attached to a survey party. — John F. Mann. J 



Remarks on notes by Mr. Mann. 



Birran birran, Yarra yarra (Notes 2 and 4.) — I think it 

 improbable that the words Birran birran, Yarra yarra are, as 

 suggested by Mr. Mann's notes (2) and (4) identical with 'Yarran.' 

 The Scrub called l Yarran,' ' Yurreen,' or ' Yarrin ' is well known 

 by that name in the ' Level ' country, where it is common. This 

 name, as I have been told, was given by the blacks to any kind 

 of useless scrub. The word ' Yarra ' on the contrary, survives in 

 the ' Level ' country only as the name of an out station at some 

 waterholes in the Bulabla Creek, two miles east of Morangareel, 

 where it might be expected that ' Gum ' trees would be found. 

 The Yarra yarra plain is at least fifty miles distant from the 

 ' Yarra ' above mentioned, and is situated in a part of the country 

 where I have never seen ' Yarreen ' scrub. It is perhaps worthy 

 of note that not only ' Yarra,' but ' Coolac,' ' Mooney mooney ' 

 and probably other native names in the old ' Pastoral district of 

 the Lachlan ' are identical with those of well known places near 

 Melbourne. Bri'bera — The hill called Bobbera is one of tne 

 most conspicuous landmarks in the County of Harden ; but the 

 name properly belongs to another hill — (Mr. Mann's pencil note 

 against ' Bribera ' would suggest that hill as being the Bobbera of 

 the blacks). The early settlers in fact applied the name to the 

 wrong hill, so that the true native names for the ' Bobbara ' and 

 Little Bobbara of the Government Maps viz. ' Jindabmeer (or 

 Jindabmeung) and ' Jindabmeer (or Jindabmeung) Narang ' have 

 been lost.— F. B. W. W. 



