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a curve in its orbit from and to the thrower; to effect this, it is
thrown agftinst the n-ind ; but ill war it is thrown against the
ground ; it then rebounds apparently with double violence, and
strikes some distant object, and wounds severely with its
sharpened extremities.
P ti r r 0, m., an egg. But, used in a mystic sense, to the initiated
ones it means 'fire or 13-ater.' And by the use of this term in
asking for either element, the fraternity call discover them-
selves to each other. The men, after the tooth is knocked out
in the Bora rites, call women k u n n a i k a r B, and themselres
y i r a b a i ; previous to which the men are styled, k or o mu n.
The ceremony of initiation takes place every three or four years
as young lads arrive at the age of puberty ; mystic rings are
made in the woods, and numerous ceremonies are gone through
before the operation of displacing a tooth from the upper
jaw; this is effected by three stead.^ blows with a stout piece
of hard wood, in shape like a punch, from the hand of the
kar5kal; after that, the youth may seize a moman; he becomes
a 1ne111ber of the tribe and engages in their fights.
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g u 1 u g, the name of the ring in which the tooth is knocked
out. The trees are marked near the ring with rude representation
of locusts, serpents, and other things, 011 the bark ;
these are chopped with an axe; and copies of the nests of
various quadrupeds are formed on the ground near the spot.
The celebrauts dance for several days every morning and
evening, continuing the whole of the night; no women are
allowed to join in the ceremoq-.
,rZ m a b a, Lake Macquarie ; the word means ' a plain surface.'
B i TI- o k u 1 a, the place of red ti-trees ; from b iwo g, 'red ti-tree.'
Boik6n61~ba,aplaceofferns;fro~~~boiIr6n;'feru.'
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3 o u 11, the site of Wallis's Plains ; from a bird of &at-name.
B fil b a, an island ; any place surrounded with water.
B u 1 k a r a, any mountain ; from b u 1 k a, ' the back ' of a man
or a beast.
B u t t a b a, the name of a hill on the margin of the Lake.
Oaramantbra, any plain, aflat.
B o 1 o y b u w 6, a point of land on the south side of the Lake.
0 6 r r 6 in b a, the female-emu place ; from g 6 r r o i n, ' the
female emu '; ' the lnale emu ' is k 6 g k o r 6 g, from his cry.
G u r r A n b a, a place of brambles ; from g ur r 8 n, an inferior
sort of ' bramble.'
K a i b r a b a, a place of ' ~ea-weeds.'
K 5rakunb a, a place of ' swamp-oaks,' which is a species of pine.
K k e 1 - k 6 e 1 b a, a place of ' grass-tree.'
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Kin t i i r r a b i n, the name of a small extinct rolcnno on the
sea-coast. near Becl Head, ~~orth-east of Lake 3Iacquarie.
Koikaligba, a place of branibles; fro111 Iioikalig, asort
of ' bramble,' bearing a berry like a raspber~~.
K o i y 6 g, ths site of any native camp.
K o n a - k o n a b a, the name of t5e place where the stone called
I< o n a - k o n a is found. Thore ara 1 eins in the stone, which
coutain a yellow substance usecl for paiut in n arlilic expeditions.
It is the name of n. large mounta~n, at the norther11
estremity of Lake Macquarie.
K o purr a b a, the name of the place fi-ox ~ ~hich the blacks
obtain the k o p u r r a, s yelloivi~h earth, which they net,
mould up into balls, ancl then burn in a strong fire ; the fire
makes it change into a. brilliant red, snmethmg like red ochre ;
the lnen md moinen paint themselves with it, after miring it
with the kidney fat of the lcangaroo ; this paint they uge
alnrays at their dances.
6 n r r a - k u r r 6 n, the name of a place in which there is almost
a forest of petrifactions of wood, of ~~arious sizes, extremely
well defined. It is in a bay at the north-western estremity of
Lake AIacquarie. The tradition of the aborigines is, that formarly
it was one large rock vhieh fell from the heavens ancl
kxlled a number of blacks who were assembled there ; thev
had gathered themselves tog-ther in that spot by commni~d
r of an immense iguana, which came down from henren for that
Ilurpose; the iguana mas angry at their having liilled lice
by roasting them in the fire ; those rho had lrillecl the rermiil
by cracking them, had been previously spenrsd to death by
him with a long reed from heaven ! At that remote period, the
moon mas a man named P6 nt o b u g; and hence the moon is
called he to the present clay; but toe sun, being formerly a
~voman, retains tile feminine pronoun she. When the iquana
saw a11 the men mere k~lled by the fall of the stone, he asceilded
up into heaven, where he is snpposed to be now.
R u t t a i, the site of Sydney Light-house ; any peuinsula.
IKu-lu&=in b ~ the , name of the site of Re~vcastle, from an
indigenous ' fern ' named mu 1 u b i n.
Mu 11 u g - b u 1 a, the name of two uprigl~t rocks about ]line feet
high, springing np from the side of a bluff head on the margin
of the Lalie. 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 blaclr man. Beneath the
mountain on which the tnro pillars stand, a seam of common coal
is seen, many feet thick, from which Reid obtained a cargo of
coals wllen he mistook the entrance of this lake for Kewcastle.
A portion of a wharf built by hlm still exists at this place,
which is still called Reid's Nistalce ; Lz.e., in LS34]. J