Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri)

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Nurunderi's two wives ran away from him. He pursued them to Encounter Bay, saw them at a distance, and angrily cried out for the waters to rise and drown them. A terrible flood washed over the hills and killed the two women. The waters rose so high that a man named Nepelle, who lived at Rauwoke, had to drag his canoe to the top of the hill now called Point Macleay. The dense part of the Milky Way shows his canoe floating in the sky.

Frazer, 1919, 236; Mountford, Charles P. and Ainslie Roberts, The Dreamtime Book (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973), 134.