oyl-ya bakkan broo kote ngan-now. Ko-tdje ngannow broo.
Yel-line ngan-now (ngin-nee nganya yonga, nadjoo wattoo yan-na.) Boyl-ya
yoongar bogal boola ngin-now. Yoongar mendyke, boyl-ya wal-byne,
wal-byne, wal-byne, etc. etc. boorda bar-rab-a-ra yoongar.)

The boyl-yas are natives who have the power of boyl-ya; they sit down to
the northward, the eastward, and southward; the boyl-yas are very bad,
they walk away there (pointing to the east). I shall be very ill
presently.

The boyl-yas eat up a great many natives, they eat them up as fire would;
you and I will be very ill directly. The boyl-yas have ears: by-and-by
they will be greatly enraged. I'll tell you no more.

The boyl-yas move stealthily, you sleep and they steal on you, very
stealthily the boyl-yas move. These boyl-yas are dreadfully revengeful;
by-and-by we shall be very ill. I'll not talk about them.

They come moving along in the sky, cannot you let them alone. I've
already a terrible headache, by-and-by you and I will be two dead men.

The natives cannot see them. The boyl-yas do not bite, they feed
stealthily; they do not eat the bones, but consume the flesh. Just give
me what you intend to give, and I'll walk off.

The boyl-yas sit at the graves of natives in great numbers. If natives
are ill, the boyl-yas charm, charm, charm, charm, and charm, and by and
by the natives recover.

...

I could learn nothing further from him.

The Wau-gul is an imaginary aquatic monster, residing in fresh water and
endowed with supernatural power which enables it to consume the natives,
although it generally attacks females. The person it selects for its
victim pines away almost imperceptibly and dies.

SUPERSTITION AND THEIR OPINION REGARDING THE NIGHTMARE.

The natives believe that the nightmare is caused by some evil spirit. The
way in which they get rid of this evil being is by jumping up, seizing a
lighted brand from the fire, twirling it round the head, and muttering a
variety of imprecations; they then throw the stick away in the direction
they conceive the spirit to be in. Some of them have explained this
custom to me by stating that this evil spirit wants a light, and that
when he gets it he will go away. They however also take the precaution of
moving their position and getting as far as they can into the group of
natives who are sleeping round the fire.

If they are obliged to move away from the fire after dark, either to get
water or for any other p