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The Euahlayi Tribe

CHAPTER IX
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Eumoolan.
Dooar wullah doo.

Boombee nulgah delah.' The old fellow said wherever Byamee had travelled this song was known, but no one now knew the meaning of the whole, not even the oldest wirreenuns.
Another stone was given to a Boorahbayyi when he first heard this song.
The wirreenuns, they say, swallow their stones to keep them safe.
At each Boorah a taboo is taken off food.

After a third Boorah a man could eat fish, after a fourth honey, after a fifth what he liked.

He was then, too, shown and taught the meanings of the tribal message-sticks, and the big Boorah one of Byamee.

As few men now have ever been to five Boorahs, few know anything about these last.


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