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--- 193811 [2016/04/07 13:05] – [Camping Thirthy Years Ago] emmanuelle_c
+++ 193811 [2016/06/29 12:46] – [The Spirit of Garrawarra] emmanuelle_c
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 by Frank Cramp.
-The scone is a Blackfellowts camp fire, around which sit a group of young men and one old man.
+The scene is a Blackfellow's camp fire, around which sit a group of young men and one old man.
 YOUNG MAN: The strange people who landed at the Bay of the Stingrays have gone in their great canoes like those who were here when we were still unmade men. Now we can hunt and fish just as we always did.
-OLD MAIN: Never again, or at least only for a little time. Our day is done. Last night, whilst the camp slept, the Fire Spirit spoke to me th:ough the glow of my fire. He said:
-"You are an old man. You have seen the men of the Garrawarra Tribe grow from childhood. You have officiated at the Bora Ceremonies and at the the making of men. You have led the tribe in peace and war, and now you are old - and your time will die with you. For a while those strange- people, who can make lightning and thunder from their spears, will camp at the Bay of Stingrays, but later they will go further north to the Big Bay, and there they will make a camp that will grow and grow, and from there they will over-run all the land, making camps at Burn., Wollongong, Geringong, and other places that you know vell,and north and west further than your greatest travellers have ever been. They will destroy the kangaroo, the wallaby; the very birds will leave their lands. They will cut down the trees, pullute the rivers and creeks, and the Blackfellows will be driven further and further away from the Strange People's camp until at last, except fok a few poor things living upon their charity, the Blackfellow will be no more.
+OLD MAN: Never again, or at least only for a little time. Our day is done. Last night, whilst the camp slept, the Fire Spirit spoke to me through the glow of my fire. He said:
-YOUNG MN: But that can never be. When the Great Spirit divided the lands, said he not to our fathers:-
-"On this place shall the Garrawarra Tribe dwell. From where the high hill slopes down to the beach, to the south, along the shore, where the palms shine as fire in the sun, past the high cliffs to the place whore the river meets the sea, to the north and along the river to the west, there the Spirit of Garrawaria shall have his home."
+"You are an old man. You have seen the men of the Garrawarra Tribe grow from childhood. You have officiated at the Bora Ceremonies and at the the making of men. You have led the tribe in peace and war, and now you are old - and your time will die with you. For a while those strange people, who can make lightning and thunder from their spears, will camp at the Bay of Stingrays, but later they will go further north to the Big Bay, and there they will make a camp that will grow and grow, and from there they will over-run all the land, making camps at Bulli, Wollongong, Geringong, and other places that you know well, and north and west further than your greatest travellers have ever been. They will destroy the kangaroo, the wallaby; the very birds will leave their lands. They will cut down the trees, pollute the rivers and creeks, and the Blackfellows will be driven further and further away from the Strange People's camp until at last, except for a few poor things living upon their charity, the Blackfellow will be no more.
-Said he not this, 0 Fathbr or the Tribe?
-OLD MIN: 4.iye2 the Spirit of Garrawarra! But not the men of Garrawarral These strange People will destroy with one hand and preserve with the other. Our land and the land of the Kuringai, of all the lands in many moons of travel, will remain as they are, and the Spirit of Garrawarra will be kept alive by the love of a select few of the Strange People, who will love our country, and live as we live whilst they are here, and go back to their other lives when they must. But always in their hearts will be the Spirit of Garrawarra. There shall be those who will covet this land and strive to wrest it from those of the Spirlt, but they will fail, for the Spirit of Garramarra is the love of the trees, the birds, the glare of the sun at noon, the shade of the cool jungle, the afterglow merging into night, and soft breezes whispering to the surf on the beach; the moon shining on the sea, and the stars looking down on all.
+YOUNG MAN: But that can never be. When the Great Spirit divided the lands, said he not to our fathers:
-These things are part of man, and while man lives his heart will yearn for them,
-This I saw in the fire embers, whiL_ the Spirit sat with me.
+"On this place shall the Garrawarra Tribe dwell. From where the high hill slopes down to the beach, to the south, along the shore, where the palms shine as fire in the sun, past the high cliffs to the place where the river meets the sea, to the north and along the river to the west, there the Spirit of Garrawarra shall have his home."
+Said he not this, O Father of the Tribe?
+OLD MAN: Aye, the Spirit of Garrawarra! But not the men of Garrawarra! These strange People will destroy with one hand and preserve with the other. Our land and the land of the Kuringai, of all the lands in many moons of travel, will remain as they are, and the Spirit of Garrawarra will be kept alive by the love of a select few of the Strange People, who will love our country, and live as we live whilst they are here, and go back to their other lives when they must. But always in their hearts will be the Spirit of Garrawarra. There shall be those who will covet this land and strive to wrest it from those of the Spirit, but they will fail, for the Spirit of Garrawarra is the love of the trees, the birds, the glare of the sun at noon, the shade of the cool jungle, the afterglow merging into night, and soft breezes whispering to the surf on the beach; the moon shining on the sea, and the stars looking down on all.
+These things are part of man, and while man lives his heart will yearn for them.
+This I saw in the fire embers, while the Spirit sat with me.
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