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He said nothing, but the young fellows noticed that for two or three days in succession he went to the waterhole in the creek and placed in it a willgoo willgoo a long stick, ornamented at the top with white cockatoo feathers and beside the stick he placed two big gubberah, that is, two big, clear pebbles which at other times he always secreted about him, in the folds of his waywah, or in the band or net on his head.
When the dardurr were finished, having high floors of ant-bed and water-tight roofs of bark, Wirreenun commanded the whole camp to come with him to the waterhole; men, women, and children; all were to come. They all followed him down to the creek, to the waterhole where he had placed the willgoo willgoo and gubberah. Wirreenun jumped into the water and bade the tribe follow him, which they did.
Then an old wirreenun gave him a small white gubberah, which he was bidden to keep concealed for ever from the uninitiated and the women, and he must be ready to produce it whenever called upon to do so. The result of failure would be fatal to him.
The figure drove this into the boy's head, pulled it out through his back, and in the hole thus made placed a 'Gubberah, or sacred stone, with the help of which much of the boy's magic in the future was to be worked. This stone was about the size and something the shape of a small lemon, looking like a smoothed lump of semi-transparent crystal.
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