[The Euahlayi Tribe by K. Langloh Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Euahlayi Tribe CHAPTER XI 13/15
This recurrence of the mention of dogs in the legends touching Byamee looks as if blacks at all events believed dogs to have been in Australia as long as men. At Dooyanweenia are two rocks where Byamee and Birrahgnooloo rested, and to these rocks are still sticking the hairs he pulled from his beard, after rubbing his face with gum to make them come out easily. At Guddee, a spring in the Brewarrina district, every now and then come up huge bones of animals now extinct.
Legends say that these bones are the remains of the victims of Mullyan, the eagle-hawk, whose camp was in the tree at the foot of which was the spring.
This tree was a tree of trees; first, a widely spreading gum, then another kind, next a pine, and lastly a midgee, in which was Mullyan's camp, out of which the relations of his victims burnt him and his wives, and they now form the Northern Crown constellation.
The roots of this gigantic tree travelled for miles, forming underground water-courses.
At Eurahbah and elsewhere are hollowed-out caves like stones; in these places Birrahgnooloo slept, and near them, before the stock trampled them out, were always to be found springs made at her instigation for her refreshment; she is the patroness of water. At Toulby and elsewhere are mud springs.
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