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'During the early years of European colonisation, Aboriginal people across southeastern Australia told colonists about fearsome monsters inhabiting deep river pools and lakes. A considerable interest was shown in locating and identifying the beast. It came to be called bunyip, a Victorian name derived from the Wergaia dialect in the northwest.' (Introduction)
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