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Series 14 - 23a
Series 14 - 23a
Series 14 - 23a
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2» Flying Foam Passage Incident
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gunga's sister*s sons and a Toadarup. He made a reputation
often given charge of a year old baby ndLon he would take aiay
with him for hours, carrying food for the child and himself*
bothers were luite happy to leave him in charge and the children
loved him because he had learned to make little bush toys for
them*
His liking for rum grew,and when his friends would not give him
all he desired, he beeame so threatening that he had to be
returned to Anatralia. He went badk to Swan Kiter and promptly
found and killed the man who had killed his mother. He ms
tried and hanged in Herth in 1h62.
Anfly loved children and ran bu miles te see a new baby in tJMt
family he had werked for.
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and Bilyagoorong. Doggaingurt was laiaran's (Clara's) father^
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is called weeloo, tne female willa.
Straw necjced ibis is called wilow-f willoo is also the sea.
The boy when taken for circuaoision is called wi^janoo.
Circumcision is called me kcrraboolyo, subinoision weead.
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the springs at Daalangup^ where the/ now are. Ko v/omen could go
near the spring. (see ngrths, etc.)
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lloorndok, fern
Boorlgur, gumnut
Yoggurt «= sun
Ngalbaltch says that the wej made a lake of kwennert and the wej
and jooteetch turned into yungar and turned all the other birds
and beasts as well.
Bgalbaitch has a legend that the dwerdnk killed all the ym^ar
except two, a man and a woman.
Brsker people call Jerramungup people kunneexing, western.
Inland people are koolee, oeast people wadlarndee.
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"you can have the thigh," until the mice were all divided, ' v
(see complete version of this in l<yth3 section,)
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Borrong, Myohhin dahhun
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Jeekok are long noses Bgogonyuk, kwerra ("brush kangaroo) denote#
a final syllable added. liannaitoh instead of mannitch.
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Bungaltch mixture.
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It Broome the initials 2t X '^^re distinguishing features.
ial^ m lisard, wuleo • u#at, ^rl girt » to tie up, walg' • eun,
laiab » stealing.
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but after a little time the blood ceases, the seeds know the
eatersl Mooga m kurrajong seeds.
Mialliae ^ boorong woman oalls her Tharrooroo nephew "kangoo*,
to distinguish him from her son-in-law wbo is also *mephew* te
her.
I(yingaia - ant-eater.
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The kaialooloo « kaialee people, eat those they kill,
lalgoo . blood. Jalgoo is supposed to be a blood drinking
ceremony, but the custom if it existed is not followed in the
South.
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Three or four wives were the limit. Page 99
they came close to him they tumbled down. He oame to the e amp
and fomnd'Koolong (Billy) who is ngalboo bormagur, very ill, aM^
he knew that Billy would soon die.
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1 good vmlaaoa is worth 9 boordoa.
The opossum wild oat and emu story also here, hut the Jooteetch
had to run after the emu, and he caught her this side of kafflmooning
him and speared him and that's why ^ooteetch are all marked*
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All banjoo (turkey) totem people are inland and round Balladonia.
There are no karrgain borungur because kargain is boss.
Bead go eastward.
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Baggooroo, Greenough 7^ -7
Thaggoora, close to fiunnagurdee and Handa -7 .
Mardooyeera, close to Tha^oora " i'
Mooroolee olose to Mardooyeera ,
Baggoo or yTeereegoorna East V fioornaagoo and Aeejaaree
Wardaloo S.E., tall people south
Karbulyeera, S.E,
Wajjarree, "half way east"
Marratharra's songs are in her Tocabulaxy,
Bongara people belong to the sea and the rain and the water
Jeemeree and Kaiaera are two terms used during the Boolgoo;
the men ta}» the stranger women, learing their women for the
stranger men.
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At oakatella the most extraordlaaxy dialect oomss 1&» Certain
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wonga-a n to speak, miloo ba*a* » wiokiog, wa*-aa oogoo « hawk,
woo*ita n fish, indee*a « star, aaa*nga » neck, natire cat «
thia»tha~goo (th hard as in thick), otho » dog (th always hard)
Koorilthoo s swan, waj^anoo « fire, warroo « sue.
Tlllm'blrrge
Twin Peak
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Muggabeea (Isallheaded)
Chignon, thabbagooreo.
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]S«W. hring kailees, E. and H.E. hring spears, etc.
liardeea » manner of ealXing sister-in-law hg^ aan,
the teeth.
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WaTHgnn and Yalladhooroa (£. of PeaJc Hill), Kajjeera*3 WoOgM*
Oolandha- to oxy
fiaiaree » plelades
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meerdil » blood drinking
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It- ieedala, kairdangarra a 2ad subincisicn
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boy back, covered with dhoarree next morning
yoongoo dalgoo, mardoongoo murda » woman given to
Mirroodee « bullroarer
Yeemia or eemarree is shown after the boy is made man, some little
time after. It is sawn to and fro across his breast. bloed
is drawn. It is than given him to protect It for a time.
Ornaments « dhoodhee, neck string, ngooleroo « head band, whitened
with ashes, yoordee yoordee, string greaaed (if this la smelt
by an outsider that person will die), kaddoe ngan'dee, arm string
worn by dhooarree mulloo.
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fell in love with Joobaitch and so the York man had another wife
Joobalteh was a strong lithe active man in those days, and no one
was a better spear, slub and Iqriay thrower, nor a better dodger
of these weapons than Jeebaiteh.
Ifsnally in an elopement the men beat the man, the women beating
the women.
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father* s peopie. She was qhick to find the roots and flints#
was an adept at skin scraping, etc.
Joobaitch married again, this time to looiyeenan, and his
love song to Yoolyeenan was as follows
hoorna inda maalaree daargan oh
^like) wood together grow, kill or settle anyone who interferes
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Gootalan was a Toodyay woman, the wife of Weeban, who took her
on the death of Moolaltoh, a Ballaruk, her first husband.
She iMit Joobalteh at a babbin making eeremoi^ at hortham, where
be iMui. changed his naae^ and fell in love-with hla. when Joo.
camp» but nemesis and liVee'ban were again on her track, and to
avoid bloodshed Joobaltch was again persuaded to allow her to
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also gave her half a crown of white nan's money. helther were
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A third time &ootalan fled to Gulldford, where to |wr sorrow
she found her lover absent. Joobaltch was then engaged In
tracking the notorious convict, Dominic Grey, who had escaped,
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from Fremantle. Before Weeban could start on his third jooritey
after his errant v/ife, he caught measles and died, and Gootalan
remained with his people at the Bwan pending his return.
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i t contained tfee halfcrown he gave her when he first met her.
has towards spending the White money and had Icept it as her
first love token. They often laughed over her tale of Weeban
searching her bag for money and always overlooking the needle
Tondarup, for dxiring all the runaways and ail her sojourn with
her relatives, she was not wounded nor engaged in any luarrels
cfHnpanion.
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Weeban could have killed Gootalan for running away, but he did not.
Manja boning took place during babbin ceremony.
Bishop Sitney (then Esther Gibney), first visit to li.i., July, 1818.
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Also the flying Eoan Incilent.
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their two sons, 860 sheep and some horses and cuttle. Instead
Port Hedland and there the vessel became stranded, the live
stock was put ashore and many of their goods washed amgr Isgr
and reached Cossack with 86O sheep, one horse, one oow, very
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: ': chance of getting any more for many months. It needed stout
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was constructed on Welcome Hill at Boebourne (9 miles from
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a while, also the hide for protecting their feet, out of this
and some deal boxes, sandals and clogs were made ami im these
Mr. Withnell, his wife and her brother, Mr. Hanoook, started
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Fiver (named by Gregoiy) and it was here that one of those trials
were experienced which fortunately not many pioneers have had
gathered, the husband and wife travelled down the Sherlock and
shade. Time went on. Ho gun was fired. The lonely woman
grew more and more anxious, eaoh minute seamed an hour.
Hurriedly at these times, flour and tea and sugar and a few ^oeds
would be snatched and take n to still higher ground, ndaere even.
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Only their experience could do this* But they won out, entirely
off their own bat, and. their children and children's children
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but under better conditions, yet filled with the courage aud
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fortitude of their parents, and all made good. They held thW
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regard and respect of the late John Forrest, until his death,
his respect because of their Stirling character and dogged
courage. Their son James was the first to pioic up gold bear
ing stone in the Sherlock area, Jim was aiming the rook at a
lamb-eating crow, and the sun glinting on the stone, the crow's
life was saved, for JTim took the atone heme to his father.
John Wlthnell hurried in to Eoebourne, a Journey of
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miles and rushing to the Telegraph Office, wired his friend
: ": r'C Jack Forrest (then Premier of the new State ©f W^A.) the ex
citing news that"Ji«By picked up stone to throw at a erow,"
And John Forrest's first and only ministerial joke was wired
hack "And what happened to the oro«?" hut the opening of taa
Pilbara Goldfielda followed Jimay's find am the stone la mm
probably in the Perth Muaeim, or in the keeping of Perth,
Historical Society. The natives of the Sherlock country •tm
and another white man were camped at night near their oaptors*
In the night a numher of natives from the hush, who had doubt
the white fellows in the same way. The R.M, saw that the
matter was serious and sent out the few police he had and
the murderers tnd teach them they could not kill Europeans
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In 1S73 the Austrian ship ...fano was wreoked ahout eig^t
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miles south of Point Gloates. The Captain, officers and crew
numbered 18, but only ten of their noaber reached the shore.
Cast upon an inhospitable coast, with very little to sustain
them, the survivors resolved to make an attempt to reach either
Geraldton or Perth. They made the attempt but had to return
come unendurable.
They resolved that they would remain near the wreck and
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f;.'?":'-". ..i die together. Food became less and less and in a month or se
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began to give out. On Christmas Day, 1875, the first member
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of the little party of ten died. The others lingered on, but
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one by one they died until only two of the sailors rotaained.
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The natives \vho were in the vicinity from the first days of
the wreck, watched the sailers, but as the sailors either did
not see them, or made no attempt through fear to gain their
help, the natives kept at the same distance from the little
party during the whole of the time, Ihen however they saw
that the white men were dying, they approached the place and
found ail dead except two, 'ftho were in a most emaeiated condi
tion, being unable to stand or walk. The natives brought them
food and water, and decided amongst thraselves to convey the
two men to a point on the coast, iftiere thsy knew coasting boats
occasionally called in for water, or te leave supplies fer some
pioneer white man. These natives had already come in contact
with some of the fine Mer^dest pioneers ef those days and s#
had learned something of the tn^ita man.
They got their wwsem to carry the lighter of the two moa,
the men carrying the bigger sailor. The distance to be oeverei
was eighty miles. Both men and women were naked and they
carried the white men as they SMEetimes earry their own sioJc
or disabled, on their shoulders or round their hips. Bay tg
ddy under a fierce sum and over a rou^ native traek, tiug
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struggled with their hTirdeu, Here and there they rested and
caught fish and hirds and animal food which they gave first
heljping to the sailors, lighting a fire for them so that they
could cook the food in their own way. After a v/eek or so
of this travelling they reached the HorMVest Ca^e. Here
providentially a coaster was found and the men taken on hoard
and suhseijuently conveyed to S^emantle and thence to their owa
country. The names of these two survivors were Micali Baccihe,
18, from Bagusa, and Giovanni Gumioh, aged 27, from San Biooto
in Austria. Needless to say, these men were deeply grateful to
the natives who had treated them so kindly and saved them from
a lingeringdeath hy starvation.
As soon as the details had reached Perth, a d^antity of
flour, tea and sugar and tohacco was despatched hy the next
coaster to the little group of natives who had treated the
suffering sailors so kindly and had done such a great servles
to humaeoity^,
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