The Legend of Kupirri, or, The Red Kangaroo / An Aboriginal Tradition of the Port Lincoln Tribe

PILLA AND INDA.

AN ABORIGINAL TRADITION OF THE PORT LINCOLN TRIBE.
BY W. A. CAWTHORNE, PRINCIPAL OF THE VICTORIA-SQUARE ACADEMY.
KUPIRRI.
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: J. H. LEWIS, PRINTER, MDCCCLVIII.


The Natives of a certain district of Port Lincoln, when questioned as to the cause of the non-existence of that species of Kangaroo known to the Colonists as the great Red Kangaroo , have the following legend in reference to its extinction:—
Note 1.—In the Breccia caves of the Portland district, and elsewhere, huge bones of an extinct kangaroo have been found. It is possible, therefore, that this legend has some foundation in fact, which in the lapse of time has moulded itself in the present form.