human
What name, Yarloo? You see um Kadaitcha (avenging spirit), eh?
gpt
Which way Ranui, Ted, Teedee?
human
Gone,
gpt
Gone! What name you yabber gone? (What makes you say they've gone?)
human
Me think those three fella no come back, explained the boy.
gpt
Me track um up long way. They walk, walk. Oh my word, plenty walk. He pointed towards the distant mountains, and continued:
human
Me think they walk longa Musgraves.
gpt
Musgraves in a tone of fear. It was a word to strike terror to the heart; a word which at once called to mind everything which was bad and treacherous and cruel about natives; a word which told of the last great stronghold of the blacks which white men had tried and tried again to take from them but without success. Sax and Vaughan looked at one another when the dreaded word
human
Musgraves caught their ear. Yarloo saw their glance, and repeated, in a hopeless voice:
gpt
Me think they walk longa Musgraves.
human
What time they go? asked Mick, thinking that Yarloo must have made a mistake.
gpt
What time they start walk?
human
Me see um track other black fella, he said.
gpt
Ranui, Ted, Teedee, they join those other black fella. Go 'way Go right 'way. Me think they no come back.
human
And the horses? he asked eagerly.
gpt
What name the horses?
human
You yabber quickfella! quickfella! (You tell me quickly!) he shouted.
gpt
What name horses?
human
Them bin speared.
gpt
Speared! The word came from Mick's lips with a yell of horror.
human
Speared!
gpt
Yah. Alabout. (All of them.)
human
Show me!