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Nowra district, because parrots are usually very numerous about there. He had a bag slung over his shoulder in which he carried these birds. Only one of these men are ever seen at the same time, and his camp fire has never been observed, nor any place where he had been camping or resting. The clever old blackfellows can sometimes hear one of these animals calling out yau! yau! yauh! If a blackfellow met Wallanthagang in the bush he would not speak, unless first addressed. He would then imitate what the man said, as if trying to learn the language. The blackfellow would probably think this boy-like personage was poking fun at him, and give Wallanthagang a clout. He would then rush at the blackfellow, and catching hold of him, throw him up several feet into the air, and let him fall heavily upon the ground. This would be repeated many times in quick succession, until the man became very sick at the stomach and quite helpless. Wallanthagang would now carry the man to a bull-dog ants’ nest, and lay him down on top of it, so that these insects might sting him until he recovered.
Wulthegang
{On three occasions between 1899-1902 Archibald Campbell was given snippets of information about the mysterious creature called ‘Wulthegang’ who inhabited the Cambewarra Mountain. His informant was Buthring, a Shoalhaven native from Coolangatta, who was very reluctant to reveal details of this mysterious being. The first account was recorded on 18 October 1899, in reply to Campbell’s question regarding the native name of Cambewarra Mountain}
Cambewarra Mountain The native name for this he said, was not the above, but "Gumbeengang". And here he volunteered in intense earnestness, to launch forth in superstitious legend - He said the mountain was so named on account of a "little hairy man" who lived in a cave situated near the top of the range. The "little man" had lived there from time immemorial, lived there still, and would do for all time. He did not eat bread or any such things, as ordinary blackfellows, and white fellows did, but ate bush possums, which existed in the locality for his use. He (Buthring) had never seen the little man, or his cave, but his father had, and all the old blackfellows, passed away, knew everything about him. The cave was carved all over by the little man, who passed his time doing such carving which was the original pattern that used to be worked on the inside of the best made possum rugs manufactured by the blacks in years gone by - that was to say, within the early days of settlement by Europeans in the district. He said all old residents would remember the patterns that the blacks used to trace on the inside of the possum rugs, many years ago, which patterns he gave with authoritative earnestness as having been designed by the "little man” and obtained from him. And he was quite emphatic about the said cave and little man being on the mountain top still.
[On 14 February 1900, Archibald Campbell was given further information re Wulthegang by Buthring: The Little Man of the Cambewarra Mountain (he told me about before) he says is about the height of a table, and his colour "quarter-caste” - blacker than a white man, & whiter than a half-caste.
[The final version of the Wallanthagang story was given to Campbell on 18 May 1902, again by Buthring: