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some South Australian tribes, on which the actual boundary between 

 them and the Queensland communities will be shown in its proper 

 place. The northern boundary of the Barkunjee nation, No. 5 on 

 the map hereto annexed, will also be more particularly defined in 

 my forthcoming article. 



No. 3. The Kooinmerburra Nation. 



This nation comprises several small tribes, inhabiting the coastal 

 district from Port Curtis via Keppel Bay, Port Bowen, Cape Town- 

 shend and Shoalwater Bay to Broad Sound, together with Long 

 Island, Curtis Island and some smaller ones off the coast. On the 

 south they were bounded by the Dippil, and on the west and north 

 by the Kogai-Yuipera nations, as represented by a distinguishing 

 line upon the map, PI. XIII. The community is divided into two 

 intermarrying groups, having the same names as their western 

 neighbors, but with subdivisions bearing a different nomenclature. 

 The primary group Wootaroo is divided into two sections, called 

 Moonal and Karilburra, and the Yungaroo group into two, called 

 Kooealla and Koorpal. 



The names of the groups and sections, showing how they inter- 

 marry, and the names of the respective divisions to which the chil- 

 dren belong, will be readily understood by referring to the follow- 

 ing table : 



Moonal and Karilburra are equivalent to Murri-Kubbi, and 

 Kooealla and Koorpal to Kumbo-Ippai, of the Kamilaroi and 

 Wiradjuri communities in New South Wales. 



In this community descent is always reckoned on the female side, 



