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The Euahlayi Tribe

CHAPTER IV
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That fragment of a shirt was too transparent to have hidden that lizard; he could not have had it up his sleeve, because his sleeves were in shreds.

It may have been a pet lizard that he charmed in from the bush by his song, but I did not see it arrive.
They told me this old man had two yunbeai, the other was a snake.

He often had them in evidence at his camp, and when he died they were seen beside him; there they remained until he was put into his coffin, then they disappeared and were never seen again.

This man was the greatest of our local wizards, and I think really the last of the very clever ones.

They say he was an old grey-headed man when Sir Thomas Mitchell first explored the Narran district in 1845.


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