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The two went down the Lakes with other two blacks. One day the two

''Kickä bullä thullä yak mullo jettah mullo wanga preppä bullung gàna. Mai plapa bulla''

left their camp to go and hunt by themselves, and were never seen again.

thungo kooto brun thuloo woorngallä ngäl quanä bulla, nandha kang barratha mräkandha.

One day the blacks were hunting in the scrub near some water, when one man picked up a bone.

Woorngan kani wrak thundho kàrika dundho yara yärnda, kootoopa kani ma mutba bring.

He thought it was a kangaroo bone. He looked again and found it was the bone of a black.

''Kaang koonganu ngal yal bringa jirowa. Kaang bärrath jungarra kaang bringa kani.''

Some more blacks came up and took away the mud and found the body of Kitty.

Bärrath batha kaang preperwitha kani ma kina mulla yenella tackan kani mackta.

All the blacks knew the body, because she had a lame leg. All the blacks said some one had murdered her.

''Kani thungo wango, ma kirtirra matho. Thun garra kani mal jelmbandho kani.''

''Boolung kani, bra it woorcat, thärbla Paddy batha Kitty. Bulla plapa munga Wärnungatty''

Two blacks, man and woman, named Paddy and Kitty. Two went from Lake Tyers

''wumalla murn mundarra batha märuk, ualla. Nätba lack munga bullagan. Plapa bulla''

to get swan feathers and opossum rug, to give away. No flour at the station. Went the two

''ma koote alia waneda. Bulla mellagalithä mal ngalla belligalitha lack. Kicka bulla thulla yak''

for one moon. To return when comes flour. Went the two to the west

''mullo jettah. Mullo wanga preppä bullung gàna. Mal plapa bulla thungo kooto brun.''

by the sea beach. Went with them other two men. Went the two one day.

''Thulo woorngàlla ngäl quana bulla. Nandha kaang barratha mrä kandha. Woorngan''

To hunt by themselves the two went. Never seen were their faces again. Hunting were

''kani wrak thundo kàrika, thundo yara yärnda. Kootopa kani ma mutba bring.''

the blacks in a place where was scrub, where was also water. One black picked up a bone.

''Kaang koonganu ngal yal bringa jirowa. Kaang barrath jungarra kaang bringa''

Then thought he this is a bone of a kangaroo. Then looking again found there the bone of

''kani. Barrath batha kaang preperwitha kani ma kina mulla yenella tackan kani''

a black. Looked another there more blacks and they got by lifting and saw a black's

''mackta. Kani thungo wang-a ma kirtirra matho. Thungarra kani mal jelmbandho kani.''

body. Blacks knew when she was lame. KuewKnew [sic] blacks that she had been tomahawked by blacks.