 | George Fletcher Moore - Aboriginal Australians - 1884 - 588 pages
...sleep ; to lie down to sleep. Bidjigurdu, s. — An island. The natives have a tradition that Rottneat, Carnac, and Garden Island, once formed part of the...fire ; and although there are not many indications of volcaaic action in the neighbourhood, yet some recent observations of the officers of HMS ficagle,... | |
 | George Fletcher Moore - Aboriginal Australians - 1884 - 590 pages
...See Mya. Bidjar ngwundow, r. — To sleep ; to go to sleep ; to lie down to sleep. Bidjigurdu, s — An island. The natives have a tradition that Rottnest,...noise, and the sea rushed in between, cutting off those i.«lands from the mainland. This is a savage's description of an eruption of subterranean fire ; and... | |
 | Graeme Henderson - Coasts - 2007 - 364 pages
...George Fletcher Moore. He recorded: The natives have a story that Rottnest, Carnac and Garden 1sland once formed part of the mainland, and that the intervening...noise, and the sea rushed in between, cutting off these islands from the mainland.27 Of course, Moore remained ignorant of the fact that at some time... | |
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An island. The natives have a tradition that Rottnest, Carnac, and Garden Island, once formed part of the mainland, and that the intervening ground was thickly covered with trees ; which took fire in some unaccountable way, and burned with such intensity... 