. Across Australia . squewaterhole called Wiarminni. We were now, so to speak,in the very midst of Mungai—that is, spots once inhabitedby the old ancestors, and now full of spirit old ancestors showed a commendable fondness forwalking about in the few picturesque spots that theircountry contained, and seem to have selected these rockyranges as their central home. All around us the water-holes, gorges and rocky crags were peopled with spiritindividuals, left behind by one or other of the totemicancestors—Wollunqua, Pittongu (bat), Wongana (crow),wild dog, emu, bandicoot, fish and
. Across Australia . squewaterhole called Wiarminni. We were now, so to speak,in the very midst of Mungai—that is, spots once inhabitedby the old ancestors, and now full of spirit old ancestors showed a commendable fondness forwalking about in the few picturesque spots that theircountry contained, and seem to have selected these rockyranges as their central home. All around us the water-holes, gorges and rocky crags were peopled with spiritindividuals, left behind by one or other of the totemicancestors—Wollunqua, Pittongu (bat), Wongana (crow),wild dog, emu, bandicoot, fish and kangaroo—whose linesof travel in the mystic past times, called the Wingara,formed a regular network over the whole night as we lay on the ground by the side of our campfire, with the natives—all of them elders of the tribe—talking about what had happened in the far past times, werealised more fully perhaps than we had ever done beforewhat these old traditions meant to them, and could almost. O O■J-,
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