I will tell you (about) another man. He was fishing with hook and line. Frilled Lizard (same as Mann^yamann^yiri). He was killing small crabs. He was killing them; he paddled this way, from Groote Eylandt, in a bark canoe.

He paddled along. He dropped the hook at Nun^gadinimaji and fished, but no! The fish were small. He went to Aljiyan^ybaj, paddling, and he fished at An^yira, but again they were small. He paddled to Aljiyan^ybaj and fished at Amabira, but again they were small.

He got up (and went). At Malgida he went around the island. He caught a number of small (fish). Just small ones still. He paddled to another place, Abiyarba. He fished. Just small ones.

He went then to Aljiwiriduj and Miyamandawuyi. He fished with hook and line. He caught them, like that, but they were still small. Parrot fish, sweetlips emperors, various kinds of other Parrot fishes, etc. He caught them, but they were small ones. Again he paddled. He fished at Yumbururu. Still small ones.

Again he paddled. He fished at N^yirin^yira. Still small ones. He moved and fished at Amagurara. Still small ones. He paddled farther. He fished at Amabira--I mean Jangira. Very small ones still. He moved farther, paddling. He fished at Yuwamumaji. But no! Small ones only.

He went along and fished at Minargu. He decided to go to the far side of it. He went and fished at Mirin^ga. But no! They were still small ones. He went around the island. He fished at the dangerous island there, but no! Just small ones. He moved and fished at whatchamacallit, Yidhuwaba. No! Small ones only.

He decided to cross over to the far side, to Ran^yjuga. He went across to Ran^yjuga. He paddled. He fished. They were fairly big now. He went farther. He fished at whatchamacallit, Lhunuba. They were big now. Again he paddled on and fished at Manbalaran^ga. He fished. They were fairly big.

* /=alawaja-

He kept doing that. He fished at Burbuyulu. They were big then. He did that. He fished at Wan^ggalan^gur. They were very big then. He went over and fished at Ribimbi. They were big. There were lots of parrot fish. From there he paddled and fished at Lhalbin^yn^guru. Very big (fish). He fished with hook and line and caught them there.

* Form and exact meaning unclear

He (Frilled Lizard) set a fire, built it up, and cooked (fish) on the open fire. Then, over at Madjur, the man Wuriyambi smelled the coals.

Note: There is some brief extraneous matter on the tape after ba-gu (first line of this segment) as Ma:di shouted something in another language to a man passing by.

* Contains -anig- 'coals, embers' and =yara- 'to smell, to detect'

The man (Wuriyambi) heard the sound of the fire crackling. He sang, "They have come to my country, from Yalana and Gun^guna. I rushed (eagerly) for it! Northeast wind, it came to my consciousness with great force! Northeast wind!" He sang that. The northeast wind. He said that.

Note: This is another song-like passage with several song epithets for 'northeast wind' (durmala is the ordinary term) and some fairly complex and difficult verbal expressions. In the third line we have /=lhararma-/ and stem-variant /=lhawararma-/. The exact sense of the word glossed 'they rubbed my country' (line 1) is unclear.

He (Wuriyambi) went toward the smell of the fire. He looked (and saw Frilled Lizard). He (W) came out to him there. (He said,) "It's me! I detected the smell of the fire and came here," he said.

He (Frilled Lizard) ran along, and gave him (a look). He ran along and gave him a look. Then he (Frilled Lizard) went behind it (tree). He hid inside (a clump of trees). Frilled Lizard.

As for him (Wuriyambi), he went searching over there, and over there (for Frilled Lizard). He looked around, to the west, and this way. Then he (Frilled Lizard) farted. Then suddenly the bush flies swarmed together. They smelled the fart from over there where Wuriyambi was. They raced in a swarm to there, where he (Frilled Lizard) was squatting. They swarmed at him.

Then he followed the swarm of flied. He looked, and there he (Frilled Lizard) was crouching. He had gotten up (after being disturbed by the flies), and he (Wuriyambi) chopped at him (with an axe) across the nose. He killed him, then he held up the body and ate it. He swallowed.

* Form and meaning unclear. Possibly related to =garaja- 'to jump (down)', but analysis unclear

As for them (the relatives), they were at Madjur. The young children and the two wives. He (Wuriyambi) went along and stopped there, in the east. He coughed.

Note: There is some ambiguity as to whether we are dealing with Wuriyambi's two wives, or with the wives of both Wuriyambi and Waljuri-jun^g (Frilled Lizard). At any rate, the various relatives referred to here are related to both men.Wuriyambi is coughing (and belching) because of the body of Frilled Lizard which he has swallowed.

* n^ga- FSg prefix; -ran^g- prefix for second/third person form of kin terms; stem -n^garina-; -yun^g- marking third person possessor with kin term (3Poss); Dual -wi:yun^g with kin terms. Kin term morphology is highly idiosyncratic

They (the two women) said, "What is that? You are belching. What is it? You must have killed (and eaten) something very big." The people gathered themselves together.

They looked around for him (Frilled Lizard). They went to all the islands. The Wanindhilyagwa people of Groote Eylandt, the Wanun^gujarabi clansmen, the old people, they looked for him. They did that at Yidhuwaba, at Ran^yjuga, at Ribimbi. They looked at Lhalbin^yn^guru. There was a mark there (e.g. blood) where something had killed him (Frilled Lizard).

(They said,) "Oh! Here, something killed him, didn't it?" Then they looked around. They followed the footprints like that. They made a detour (in a curving motion). Out in the west they moved across. They took a whiff as he (Wuriyambi) coughed, belched and emitted the smell (of the dead man).

They (the people) ran over in the east and set bushfires, at Walambala, at Gan^gijiyun^g, over there at Walgawalgan^g--I mean Lhagudumu. Over there at Lhagudumu they set bushfires. At Miligij, then they went to Wurayu. They joined up the bushfires in a circle.

* It is not clear whether the subject is 'they' (wu:-) or 'it' (wu-, i.e. the fires), but this makes no difference to the story

They (the people) listened. (Wuriyambi sang,) "They have come to my country, from Gurumbura, I rushed out for the north-east wind, it hit me on the head." He sang that. "It hit me on the head." His two wives said, "There! They sent this unknown (awful) thing here for us, it hit you on the head!"

They (most of the people) went on some distance away. Then she (one of the two wives) started a circumcision performance, she danced the women's circumcision dance for the children. She (the other wife) danced over on this side. The two of them cleared the ground for the young children (to make a ritual ground), their own (children). They did that and danced over there and here.

Note: 'she threw it' refers to a specific action performed in this ritual, but I am not sure exactly what it is.

Then one by one they (Wuriyambi, his wives, presumably also their children) burst open (because of the fire). Pop! Pop! The fire burned them. One of the wives had her belly burst open. Then the second wife had her belly burst open. The children (did the same).

* Here the stem =ambada- is reduplicated directly. The alternative is to reduplicate the derivational prefix, here -(w)ara-, hence wura:-'ra:-'ra:='mbada-n^gi

As for him (Wuriyambi), they listened (to hear him burst). Then he burst, his belly burst open. That one whom he had eaten jumped out (from the belly) and lay their (dead), Prilled Lizard. That is all.