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Page 31
... crocodile hides inside — I doubt whether the beast can live after you have skinned it . If Nati were here he could tell us a lot about crocodiles . The animal is marain , sacred , to him and to all of us . The old man hardly said ...
... crocodile hides inside — I doubt whether the beast can live after you have skinned it . If Nati were here he could tell us a lot about crocodiles . The animal is marain , sacred , to him and to all of us . The old man hardly said ...
Page 89
... crocodile . A full tribe of our fellows is down there — the billabong is their home now , and sacred to us all . Ranger , too , keeps away from the water , though he can enter the billabong through a short channel from the tidal river ...
... crocodile . A full tribe of our fellows is down there — the billabong is their home now , and sacred to us all . Ranger , too , keeps away from the water , though he can enter the billabong through a short channel from the tidal river ...
Page 93
... crocodile hides lie hidden amidst the crushed timber and twisted metal of the hut - so many of them , dried and tightly packed so as not to come apart during the long journey . What do the whites need them for ? Crocodiles have no fur ...
... crocodile hides lie hidden amidst the crushed timber and twisted metal of the hut - so many of them , dried and tightly packed so as not to come apart during the long journey . What do the whites need them for ? Crocodiles have no fur ...
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angry Anguban animals Baba babaru balandja barley sugar beast belly better billabong billycan bilma birds Boma boulder branches Bungawa bush bush tucker camp chant cliff cloud cockatoo crawl crocodile dark didjeridu dilly bag dingo Djangau dragged dreams dust Duwei eyes fellows fire flaps flock Galpu gather Gidja goanna gone ground hand hill hurry inside Jambawal keep leaves look mangrove marain Marngit Midinari Mother mountain Murngin Nakara Namanama Nati never night Niyari Padre pandanus paperbark Perhaps Pitjanta pity Pupa Ranger rest river rocks Ruria sand seen Sergeant shelter skin sneak soul sound spear spirit boss spirit world stick stretch struggle tell Tiwa track trap tree tribal country tribal elders trunk tucker valley voice walk wallaby Warand Warngi water hole Wati Wawa white man's whole wonder Wongar Yirli yudu