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428 became angry. became very sulky (Nar-eit), when he saw that men and women were many and very bad. He caused storms to arise, and fierce winds to blow often. In the flat lands there arose suddenly whirlwinds of great force, and on the mountains the big trees were shaken with strong winds. came down to see the men and women. He spoke to no one. He carried with him his big knife. With his knife he went into the encampments, and he cut with his knife. He cut this way and that way; and men, women, and children he cut into very small pieces. But the pieces into which he had cut the men, women, and children did not die. Each piece moved as the worm (Tur-ror) moves. Bullito, bullito, koor-reen, pit-ker-reen (great, great storms and whirlwinds) came and carried away the pieces that moved like worms, and the pieces became like flakes of snow (Kabbing). They were carried into the clouds. The clouds carried the pieces hither and thither over all the earth; and caused the pieces to drop in such places as he pleased. Thus were men and women scattered over the earth. Of the good men and good women made stars. The stars are still in the heavens, and the sorcerers can tell which amongst the stars were once good men and good women.

The Aborigines of the Murray believe not in death—in annihilation. They believe that when the body becomes motionless—in our sense of the word, dead—it may rise again and appear perhaps in the form of a white. But they have a strange account of the occasion on which death—as the word is used in the ordinary sense—was first brought into the world.

The first created man and woman were told not to go near a certain tree in which a Bat (Bon-nel-ya) lived. The Bat was not to be disturbed. One day, however, the woman (Nonga) was gathering firewood, and she went near the tree in which the Bat lived. The Bat flew away, and after that came death. Many amongst the Aborigines died after that.