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and covered with stones. No goods or chattels of the deceased are 
buried with these ashes. 
Periods of time are reckoned thus : — 
Day, ‘ ‘ algar, ’ ’ by the sun. 
Month, “koweddie,” by the moon. 
Year, “lalleen, ” by the summer. 
LEGENDS, ETC. 
The “Kurracla-kurrada” is a horrible monster, who catches men 
and makes a small incision in their abdomens, through which he 
draws their entrails and eats them with gusto; he then closes the 
wound, telling the man that he will not live more than four days. 
The “Lerraway” is the children’s bogey, which is represented 
sometimes by a woman, who masquerades in a weird grass costume, 
and strutting about the camp frightens the children, to the amuse- 
ment of their elders. 
“Kallaloong” was the father creator of the tribe. He lived 
among them for some time, and could transport himself through 
space, and could bring tire down from the clouds. He introduced 
the boomerang and was so expert in its use that he threw one up 
in the evening and it never descended till the next day. He gave 
them their laws and punished the violation of them. On one occa- 
sion when three boys on the neighbouring island of Tyree, who were 
probationary between the rites of circumcision and sub-incision, had 
eaten of the food (fish) forbidden them at that period, they were 
seized with hiccups, and “Kallaloong” asked them the cause, and 
they confessed to having eaten fish. Then “Kallaloong” was very 
angry and determined to punish them for it. He crossed over to 
Sunday Island in the evening and the next day the terrified 
islanders saw a huge cloud of fire approaching with “Kallaloong” 
pushing behind. As it approached, it grew hotter and hotter, till 
they fled to the caves and into the sea, but they were all, except two 
or three, destroyed. These went under the pendant-rooted trees 
(Banyan-like trees) and bruised the bark, the sap from which ran 
over them and thus protected them. A bold and bare rocky island, 
called ‘ ‘Ivadjerding, ” on the west side of Sunday Island, was 
pointed out to the writer by Mr. Hadley as the place where the 
aboriginals assert that the spirit left the island. 
“Padalool” was a beautiful and good woman of the tribe, but 
some o*f the “Oen, ” aboriginals from the 1 1 Graveyard, ” a large 
bay on the east side of King Sound, between “Whirlpool Pass and 
( one Bay,” which is so named on account of the great mortality 
there among pearl divers, caused, it is said, through changes of 
water pressures there. These men, who were visiting the island, 
decided to abduct her, which they did, but were pursued by her 
