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Simpson Mrs Hugh Murrie's brother in law
who lived on the Bo Bo was named Wollong
Palßo -from "Palßo" a Kangaroo Rat and
"Wollong" the head, some of the names were English
words added to - as Towebak for Storeman
that was Old Mr Buchanan's name - he was
store keeper at Bungay = Robert Easton was
very bald headed = he was called "Cobra Bald"
There is a creek on Nowendock named after
him, he was shepherding up there for the A.A.Co.
Daintrey's name bothered him, so they made it "Teatree"
I have heard yarns told as having been told
them by the very old men, I could not make
much out of them, I remember one a young fellow
told me = we were talking about the Milkey
Way, their beleif about that was that it was
a big "Tonget' (Diamond snake) but how it
got there they had no idea, I have thought since
that the following may have some connection
with their beleife about falling stars, I could
see no meaning in it when it was told me
"There was once - long ago, a Blackfellow
who went up to heaven (what for, or how I was
not told) he was walking about with a fire
stick and some stringey bark under his arm
when he met a man who asked him what
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