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Of course sentences like this are not very often used in the 
rapid conversation of the Yerongpan tribe; still, from a grammatical 
point of view, they are quite correct, and easily understood by any- 
body who has got more than a superficial knowledge of the language. 
Particles of the Yaggara language of the Yerongpan tribe are— 
Nga, and Ngan, who 
Beren, to-day AYunya, where 
Ngubuga, to-morrow AYunyango vadnanya ngi nginte, 
Ugunuara, yesterday where do you go ? 
Baru, by-and-by -Ngan nginte, who are you ? 
AYunyango, whereto 
If two aboriginals of the Yerongpan tribe meet, they say, “ AYo 
balka,” come here ! (welcome-!). In parting they say now, “ Go wa,” 
perhaps altered from “ go away 1” They believe in a kind of bugbear 
who kills and eats the blackfellows. They do not call it Bunyip 
(“ buni ” means awful or holy), but AYorridVatn. Like the other 
tribes they are fond of dances, of music, and songs, borne of these 
have no sense at all, and seem to be derived from other tribes, e.g.— 
‘Yu darin mara, yudarin mara, yu dariu manna wae ! ’ 
repeated some times. Another one : 
“ Yar limbi nger, yar lannbinger, bi yarn duma, bi yarn duma, wae ! ” 
Another one, where “ mirrigen ” means “ star,’ ’ and “ baru ” “ soon, is 
“ Mirrigen, merrigen, mam, „ 
Mirrigen, merrigen, main, baru, baru, baru . 
Other songs are short sentences in the Yaggara language, like 
“ Mara yankuma ngangpo niewang manpawo, wae 
Mara yankuma ngangpo niewang manpawo mara yankuma . 
“Keep the fingers stiff, dancing nicer always,” &c. Another short 
song means, “ Nice is a song with a white girl ” — 
“ Gayalo ngarampa waimerigen nowago ! ” 
Some of the personal names of the Yerongpan aboriginal seem to have 
no meaning. For instance, a name very often heard is Kalanggaba, 
for a man : Kalangga, for a woman. Tsarluinbankan is another female 
name often met with of which no meaning can be given. 
The old “king of the Logan and Pimpama,” Jackey-Jaekey, is 
called by his tribe Kawae-Kawae (very sweet) , because more than forty 
years ago he uttered this word when he tasted the first glass of rum. 
The Yerongpan tribe’s “drooping days are dwindling down to 
naught,” as Thomson has it. 
6.— ROCK PAINTINGS AND CARYINGS OF THE ABORIGINES 
OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
(With Plates.) 
By R. II. MATHEWS, L.S. , and W. J. ENRIGHT , B.A. 
INTRODUCTION. 
My friend and fellow-worker, Mr. W. J. Enright, B.A., has 
requested me to make a few remarks in connection vyith his paper on 
some aboriginal rock paintings which he visited in the AYollombi 
district, New South Wales. I am much gratified to learn from him 
