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Cape Chatham

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No tribe is mentioned in the source, but the location places it in the region of the Bibbulman people.

There was once a large plain extending from the mainland to the White-topped Rocks, about nine miles out from Cape Chatham. Two women went out on this plain, digging roots. One of the women was heavy with child, and the other woman had a dog with her. After a while they saw that the sea was rushing towards them over the plain. They ran the high land around Cape Chatham, but the sea soon overtook them and was up to their knees. The woman with the dog picked it up and carried it on her shoulders. The sea, getting deeper and deeper, soon overwhelmed them both, and they were transformed into the White-topped Rocks, in which the stout woman and the woman carrying the dog can still be seen.

R. H. Mathews, "Folklore Notes from Western Australia", Folklore 20 (1909), 341.

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