 "Gurangatch", not wholly a serpent, but part fish, and part reptile, camped in the shallows of an area known as "Murraural", specifically at the junction of the Wollondilly and Wingeecaribbee rivers.It was here, while he basked in the sun, that the redoubtable fish-hunter, Mirragañ the quoll, glimpsed the light reflected from Gurangatch's eyes and endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to spear him.The quoll tried to force his prey back from the depths of the waterhole, where Gurangatch had sought refuge, by planting ever more bundles of nauseating slabs of "millewa" (Hickory|hickory bark) here and there in the various soaks and pools.