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Eumbarnu and mama ars yuloHt >iXao hilyunu mardungu*

Girrgl ara mardungu.

Balyubiri are mardungu.

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Yuloji put her down in his own place where he sits down with

her bilyunu mardungu*

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Kulba • operation on woman

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Yulojl, Icurdadu, sit wLthyuloJl.

Mardungu lie face downwards and girl is pXaeOd on top of them*

Juari 2.

Jurdaju and yago sit down with yuloji*

Juari make warl of hirilyi (charcoal) and girl sits on it.

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Byularn, Jinguru*s brother is looking out- for Kaiun and Kailbun

while Koyl is in ^ail.

Jinguru is from Xander and is Jimari kurdarn*

Jinguru killed two men, Kaimera and Burgulu, belonging to Buliaegine

district, Jinguru*B brother died from the mobarn of these

fellows and he had to revenge his brother's death.

He was chased to Wilunu Yarnder and near Ut. Sir Samuel and

they caught him at Lake Way. Kailbun was with him. They

x:.,~ were all drunk.-f: . 'it"! -

^ r Jinguru is the name of a long dead Jimari kordarh.

. Yaida iBurong) was Jinguru's bilyunu (Kurolyu*s Bister) and

; Wiluru*s daughter was Jinguru's bilyunu too, but she was killed

by i/ir'anmala yama^i. Jinguru had waited and waited at Wilu-unai 'I for niluru's daughter, but she would not oome away with him.

White people had too muoh attraction for her. She would go

with Hongun.

Dundun » young girl, also maru wuidi.

Mardadharra, or murdanyu « policeman

Sometimes Jinguru would go with Kumba or nobs to fight the

other tribe.

X,akya barndi, lies

Wulanyia, kurninjela, sorry

Bgaiugu nguxa womba womba

Jurda, sulky

Wiluwuna, Lake Way

Kunaingu and Yalgujibi, Cork tree and Mailchaags

Balja, Aberorombie '

Ws got water from Xara and Tmrara and frw iaiyaa

• and Bgugar (kurrajong root)

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Kargunda, Kathleen Ib^bj :

'^lowarda, Gvub tree

they were enenies,Womha wogolo (far away men). *

Bnma "ballurdu womhanga, their country was far away. • 7'.^• ; • •> ' ' • .-.v-•» •'?

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Marda - stone 777

The magic may come from £. or tf.| li. or S., hut from whichever

district it Gomes» that district must he raided and one of : , ..y*-yJu

its memhers iJLlled. :^ -7 •7/77:^;riy7-^

Kurdali make nosehole • ^

Hgahari cut right shoulder.. . ' . . . . » . . . V.W.. M -T' .- »—• ••

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Komuru cut left shoulder. '"T 7^-7.rJ77"

Then the other hilyunu went to Wandi with a Wandi yamajli , . '7

a Kaimera, and so 1 went over there and took Kauin from 7;

LawXer. She was a lit. Sir Samuel woman, a ^urangu. X put ^ 77 :

down ay miro near her camp and when I did that she was hilyunu -u

and he must fight me who wishes to take her away from me.

Xganama, a Burangu, Byingain's daughter, was also ay hilyunu f

and Kailhun was hilyunu too. 4.• . y,'-/ -f-

Xamhu was given me hy Ualhindi, a Burangu(7). She is quite

young. I have not yet elaimed her.

Xiaga nungtt is Burgolu. Malad,a was too old to keep her so

I took her, not as mardung though* I only keep her.

Jiaguru^s mother died with yalgu moharn in Mill Mill oountxy.

flfei hloed came up and up from her stomaeh and she died and

diagura went te Mill Mill. He speared a Miii Hill yaaaH,

a Surgula, hut he did not kill him. Semeeae alee same up

aad fiaislMd him* X was 12 months ia jail for that. But

first wirtahirl spearsd, aad, Quayan, prd, Kalagurda. ^nyan,

a Burang, was hrothor to iirtahiri. Kalagurda was Xharuru.

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jf They all speared Bianl, who was a Burangu and who belonged to

Yunmlrl countiy. Kalagurda finished him. Wlrtablrl speared

him In the breast (mlngo)^ Jlnguru In shoulder (bin), Crunyaa

(yangal) buttoclcs and Kalagurda through the heart (Jonl).

Then Jlnguru, Jlnabab, Jangarl and Muri speared liigungu nguhga^

Jlnguru In mlngo, Jangarl Slmbll (side), Muri (Jlrdl * baclc}^

hlnbara in temple (nganga), Jlnababl Jonl and figalgarl llYsr.

Why? becaase Blanl killed Wlrtablrl*s brother, a Burong,

and Jlnguru was Wlrtablrl^'s ngabarl and Ealagurda was Wirtablrl*s

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brother, with blood magic.

Jinguiu now spits blood.

They must put totem on mlrudi and yinma.

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.. I • - r • • * r- K' ••• •• f >:T"; • It is a mqot qtuestion whsther the ends of Justice are .„ ' V/ yV*^

I . ' ' . truly served Sy the application of the white man*s laws to 'S". •.

the hlack man*s misdemeanours, particularly when, owing to- . ..

vi-5.. Ills ignorance of legal English, the prisoner is unahle to

*1:1', confess his so-called crime, or the motives that led to it,

and the Judge is also similarly debarred from the elucida-

jv • tioh of certain points which the genesally meagre evidence

supplied by the "interpreter" may occasionally lead him to'•"i

think might tell in the prisoner's favour.

1"^ should always be remembered, when native offences

; V " are brought within the "civilised" limelight, that the old ' v> -'V; . ... .

Blblical dictum , "An eye for an eye" stands first and fore*

' most in the native system of Justice (or as the natives ren*•-'1, ..xr,,- •.

; ; der it, "I kill, you kill,") this vendetta obtaining amongst

i them from time immemorial, and that many apparently uuex-

plainable crimes committed by one person, or by a number of'4'-Ji-T natives, can be traced back to some real or "magic" injuiy

'; , inflicted upon some memberof the tribe, i• "X" • ;r. -i.i^ \ r M

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