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Garrgayn, the brown goshawk, was a law-giver. Before Garrgayn showed the birds the right way to circumcise - that is, by using sharpened stones - they used to 'make young men' with fire sticks.
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'Elsey Station has long been famous as the setting for We of the Never-Never, Jeannie Gunn's Australian classic of pioneering outback life. In Big River Country, the Elsey is revealed through the words of the country's original inhabitants, the Mangarrayi and Yangman people of the Roper River area...' (Source: back cover)