...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...

...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...

...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,...