Baiame's troubles with a kind of disobedient deputy, Darramulun, will also be narrated: the myth is current, too, among the Wir djuri tribe.
Other particulars about Byamee will occur in the course of later chapters: here I have tried to give a general summary of the native beliefs.

The reader may interpret them in his own fashion, and may decide as to whether the beliefs do or do not indicate a kind of 'religion,' whether 'a recognised religion' or not.

There is necessarily, of course, an absence of temples and of priests, and I have found no trace or vestige of sacrifice.

What may be said on the affirmative side as to the religious aspect of the belief, the reader can supply from the summary of facts.

Other potent beings occur in native myth, as we shall show, but there appears to exist between them and mankind no relation of affection, reverence, or duty, as in the case of Byamee.
Here it seems necessary to advert to a remark of Mr.Howitt's which appears to be erroneous.