 | Henry Charles Leonard - 1899 - 254 páginas
...my countrymen. They were frightened ; they all fled away. They returned ; they hastened ; they made a fire with wood. No more was fire lost in our land. The two black men are in the clouds. On a clear night you see them, like two stars shining. These are they... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - 1908 - 460 páginas
...the people were frightened and ran away, but came back in time and made a fire of wood, after which " no more was fire lost in our land. The two blackfellows...in the clouds, in the clear night you see them like stars. These are they who brought fire to our fathers " (Tasmanian Folklore). There were no boomerangs,... | |
 | ANZAAS. - 1928 - 988 páginas
...two strangers are said to have suddenly appeared and to have cast fire among them, "these two are now in the clouds; in the clear night you see them like two stars (Castor and Pollux)." There were two brothers, giants, who lived near Minyip, in Victoria, who were... | |
 | Max Muller F - 1986 - 500 páginas
...fathers, my countrymen, on the top of a hill. They threw fire like a star — it fell among the black men, my countrymen. They were frightened, they fled away,...with wood; no more was fire lost in our land.' The legend then goes on to say that the two black fellows are now in the clouds, and are seen in the clear... | |
 | 632 páginas
...came back and made 1 Lumholtz, op. cit. p. 29i. 2 Ethnology, p. 294. a fire of wood, after which 'i no more was fire lost in our land. The two blackfellows...the clouds ; in the clear night you see them like stars. These are they who brought fire to our fathers'." During the disgraceful colonial wars of extermination,... | |
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... my countrymen. They were frightened, — they fled away, all of them ; after a while they returned, they hastened and made a fire, — a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. 
