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 Kintiirrabin, the name of a small extinct volcnno on the sea-coast, near Ked Head, north-east of Lake Maeqiiarie.

■Ivo i k a 1 i gb a, a place ot" brambles; from koikalig, a sort of ' bramble,' bearing a berry like a raspberry.

Koiy 6 g, the site of any native camp.

Kona-konaba, the name of the place where the stone called kona-kona is found. There are veins in the stone, which contain a yellow substance used for paint in warlike expedi- tions. It is the name of a large mountain, at the uorthei'u extremity of Lake Macquarie.

Ko purr aba, the name of the phace from which the blacks obtain the k o p u r r a, a yellowish earth, which they wet, mould up into balls, and then burn in a strong fire ; the fire makes it change into a brilliant red, somethmg like red ochre ; the men and women paint themselves with it, after mixing it with the kidney fat of the kangaroo ; this paint they use always at their dances.

Kurra-kurran, the name of a place in which there is almost a forest of petrifactions of wood, of various sizes, extremely well defined. It is in a bay at the north-western extremity of Lake Macc[uarie. The tradition of the aborigines is, that for- merly it was one large rock which fell from the heavens and killed a number of blacks who were assembled there ; they had gathered themselves together in that spot by command of an immense iguana, which came down from heaven for that purpose ; the iguana was angry at their having killed lice by roasting them in the fire ; those who had killed the vermin by cracking them, had been previously speared to death by him with a long reed from heaven ! At that remote period, the moon was a man named Pontobug; and hence the moon is called he to the present day; but the sun, being formerly a woman, retains the feminine pronoun she. When the iguana saw all the men were killed by the fall of the stone, he ascended up into heaven, where he is supposed to be now.

K utta i, the site of Sydney Light-house ; any peninsula.

M u 1 u b i n b a, the name of the site of Newcastle, from an indigenous ' fern ' named m u 1 u b i n.

Mullug-bula, the name of two upright rocks about nine feet high, springing up from the side of a bluff head on the margin of the Lake. The blacks affirm, from tradition, that they are two women who were transformed into rocks, in consequence of.tbeir being beaten to death by a black man. Beneath the mountain on which the two pillars stand, a seam of common coal is seen, many feet thick, from which Reid obtained a cargo of coals when he mistook the entrance of this lake for Newcastle. A portion of a wharf built by him still exists at this place, which is still called Eeid's Mistake ; [i.e., in 1834].

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