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Updated: May 4, 2025
Among the aborigines of the Upper Yarra river in Victoria, a girl at puberty used to have cords tied very tightly round several parts of her body. The cords were worn for several days, causing the whole body to swell very much and inflicting great pain. The girl might not remove them till she was clean. Perhaps the cords were intended to arrest the flow of blood. Rev.
Wedge one of Batman's party in crossing the country from Indented Head to the Yarra, was astonished to see the masts of a vessel rising amid the gum trees. On reaching the river bank, what was his surprise to find, in that lonely spot, a vessel almost embedded in the woods, and the rocks and glades echoing to the sound of hammer and saw and the encouraging shouts of the ploughmen!
Ch'kara's gathering hall was beginning to empty, his n'ruhar responding to his desire for normality. Finally only a small group remained at the base of the dais: the First Speaker and Supreme; the two physicians, Channath and Jason; and Daria, Hovan, and Yarra. Jason, the only human, was also the only one who couldn't quite seem to accept the human Ranger's new status.
It is strange that the Australian townsman should have so thoroughly inherited the English love of living as far as possible away from the scene of his business and work during the day. The names of the suburbs afford food for reflection. Yarra is the only native name.
Next to the monotony of the Suez Canal, with which it presents many points of resemblance, I know few things more tiresome than the voyage up the Yarra in an intercolonial steamer of 600 or 700 tons, which goes aground every ten minutes, and generally, as if on purpose, just in front of a boiling-down establishment.
I have spoken of the little bell bird, which, piping its pretty monotone, flitted in those earlier years amongst the acacias on the banks of the Yarra close to Melbourne, but which has taken its departure to far distances many a year ago. The gorgeous black cockatoo was another of our early company, now also long since departed.
The striking new feature of this journey seemed to me the picturesque and beautiful River Hopkins beautiful in all but its name! Why give such starched, hard, dot-and-go-one names, when there are Eumerella, Wannon, Doutagalla, Modewarra, Yarra Yarra, and countless other such natural and genial modulations to be had of the natives for the asking?
She looked at the body, and said, 'Yes, yes, of course, but the only expression in her face was one of utter weariness. He helped her on to the horse. She did not thank him. No words of farewell were spoken, but as the horse moved away he said: 'Contrive to let Yarra bring me a shovel. 'Yes. 'At least the brute beast shall not have the price of his head
Guess not even Shark women like seeing someone get hurt." "He was the Ordeal taking," Yarra said in English. "All who could here be, him to honor, were. You the right percentage saw." Dr. Jason understood the implications at once. "Jesus H. Christ! They've got to be good with women, then and childcare, too. But what about my patients?"
"Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness." Cowper. "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." -Gray. In 1844 I lived in a little cottage at South Yarra, on the Dandenong or Gardiner's Creek-road, then only a bush track, although considerably trodden. I had not many neighbours. Mr. Jackson, at the far end, had bought Toorak, but not yet built upon it; and the near end was graced by Mr.
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