the A delaide Tribe . 
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These men use the puingurru , or peg, for bleeding. The 
last person (for there are, generally, several bleeding at 
the same time) lets his blood drop on the puingurru , 
places it near the fire, and repeats, while it is drying, 
magic sentences to prevent headache and death. (Yoc. 
puingurru .) About ten years ago they caught the small¬ 
pox ( nguya ) from the eastern tribes : it probably came 
from Sydney. They have no remedy against it but the 
nguya palti , or small-pox song, which they learnt from 
the eastern people. They fear the evil eye; and for this 
reason avoid the presence of a man possessed with rage. 
They hunt ( nurrondi ) the lives of their enemies with 
enchantments; and profess to charm the rivers, by 
putting filthy substances into them (kudnamurro) * 
They have a legend of Tarro-tarro who divided the 
sexes, and became a lizard. The hadnomarngutta , 
already mentioned, is his symbol. The wimmari is the 
same as the kadnomarngutti, but larger. ( Kadno is a 
lizard.) 
There is also a legend of JYgarkatta , a famous hunts¬ 
man, whose song is still retained ; and of JYganno , a fabu¬ 
lous person, said to have given names to different parts 
of the country (which they at present retain), and after 
that to have been transformed into a sea-monster. 
(Vocabulary, Nganno.) 
Tarnda , who taught tattooing, was afterwards trans¬ 
formed into a kangaroo; and Yura , who taught circum¬ 
cision, was changed into a snake, now inhabiting the 
milky way. 
We find it impossible not to look with the highest 
* These sorcerers are in possession of all the mysterious imple¬ 
ments, which they have received from their ancestors. Last year, 
one of them is believed to have transformed himself into a she-oak 
whilst pursued by Europeans; another into water, and drowned his 
pursuers. — T. 
