Near Gregory Gorge.

Long ago a serpent became angry with a boy. That was at Miljijana. Two novices had eaten a Barnbarn. The serpent smelled it in the sea and came out from the wild. It got up, got up from the north and made a deep trench in the land, digging it halfways, and came on along the river from the north. He cut off these two halfs by making waterholes beginning at the edge, and cut open Wirrajana, went to Wuthumarri and made Wuthumarri Pool. After being underground there, he rose toward Ngarranggarri, making that a pool too.

Again going underground, we went to Jandiwurwur Creek. No one there, so he came back. Back again, he made Gumar Pool. From Gumar, he went on again to Yiriwa and made a pool at Yiriwa.

After he made Malimardungana Pool, he went underground close to Malimardungana and went near Malany. Again he went undergound from Malany, and, being further around, he dug out Niyali and made the two Birgun pools. And he came to Marduyambalanha and made Marduyambalanha Pool. Going underground from there, he went somewhere near Mirlinguna. No one was there at Mirlinguna, so he came back.

Again he dug at Bargumarriguna and cut Bargumarriguna open and went from there near Jindawurrinanha, making Jindawurrinanha a pool. He went underground at Jindawurrinanha, but he returned to where the red ochre edge is, being underground close by from there, and made a pool in the red ochre.

Southward, where the stone is swallowed and the foam forms, he got the boys. He took them up on top of a whirlwind at Miljijanha. The serpent got them and swallowed them.

This land was had no water before he got the two boys and swallowed them. Just before he swallowed them the people cried and cried. Using a stick, they tried to get into the arse of the serpent to get the boys out, but they couldn't reach. They returned to their camp by the river very crying out, a big crowd.

That was too much for the serpent, so he buried them in a flood of water. Finish! All drowned! He's in the water now, which fills the whole trench. We call it jinda.

We call the river in the country north - starting from the old bamboo pools, not far from the homestead - we call it Jarnda-Nyirra, right up to Nangamurna, Jarnda-Nyirra from there to Gregory Gorge.

The fertility thalu Malany in the Millstream-Chichester National Park)

Wirringil looked after Jirruny's children in a big cave near Millstream while Jirruny went fishing. Jirruny returned with their fish which they cooked and ate by themselves. When Wirringil asked for her share, the pelicans said they had eaten it all and would have to go and catch some more. Wirringil today have a big beak, which they used for storing the fish they hid from the quail.

Wirringil was so angry at the greed and selfishness of the pelicans that she lit a big fire in the cave and blocked up the entrance. All the children were burnt. The pelicans returned, and when they saw Wirringil, asked where the children were. Wirringil pointed to the cave, then darted quickly away as the shocked parents realised what she'd done. They tried to catch and punish her.

Wirringil darted quickly this way and that and they couldn't catch her - no one can catch her. As she ran, she marked the ground with a criss-cross pattern. The Yindjibarndi people know that to camp in this area of Millstream, known as Malany, ensures catching lots of babies.