...had no fire. Two blackfellows came, they slept at the foot of a hill, — a hill in my own country. On the summit of a hill they were seen by my fathers,...clouds ; in the clear night you see them like two stars.* These are they who brought fire to my fathers. The two blackmen staid awhile in the land of...

...countrymen ; on the top of the hill they were seen standing. They threw fire like a star ; it fell among the Blackmen, my countrymen. They were frightened....clouds ; in the clear night you see them like two stars (Castor and Pollux). These are they who brought fire to my fathers. " The two Blackmen stayed...

...hill they were seen standing. They threw fire like a star ; it fell among the Blackmen, my coimtrymen. They were frightened. They fled away, all of them...clouds ; in the clear night you see them like two stars (Castor and Pollux). These are they who brought fire to my fathers. " The two Blackmen stayed...

...of the hill they were seen standing : they threw fire like a star — it fell amongst the black men, my countrymen. They were frightened ; they fled away,...two blackfellows are in the clouds ; in the clear nights you see them like two stars.* These are they who brought fire to my fathers. The two black men...

...of the hill they were seen standing : they threw fire like a star — it fell amongst the black men, my countrymen. They were frightened ; they fled away,...two blackfellows are in the clouds ; in the clear nights you see them like two stars.* These are they who brought fire to my fathers. The two black men...

...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...

...fire like a star, — it fell among the black men, my countrymen. They were frightened — they lied away, all of them ; after a while they returned, —...wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two black fellows are in the clouds : in the clear night you see them like two stars.* These are they who...

...came back and made 1 J.umholtz, op. cit. p. 291. * Ethnology, p. 294. a fire of wood, after which '• 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,...

...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...

...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,...