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would appear that, prior to the institution of the Yarral)ah 

 Missionary settlement, the followiug list coni|)iised the trade- 

 articles of home production :--bicornual dilly-haskets (taken or sent 

 to Port Douglas, the Mulgrave and Burron Rivers, M;ueeba and 

 Herberton), grass-l)Ugle necklaces (for the Mulgrave and Russell 

 Rivers), i'our-pronged fish-spears (iMulgrave and Upper Russell 

 Rivers, Johnstone River, Cluniii Point, etc.), straight spear- 

 thi'owers without the shell-iiaft (for the Mulgrave, Johnstone and 

 Russell Rivers), l)ent or moon-shaped spenr-lhrowers, large fight- 

 ing shields, and long single-handed swords (all for the J3;ii-ron 

 River and northwards). The imports constituting the 

 Cape Grafton northern trade, coming mainly from the 

 Barron River and Port Douglas, included the following : — 

 hour-glass woveu-pattern dilly-hags, round base basket diily-bngs, 

 beeswax necklKces, straight shell hafted spear throwei's, a variety 

 of bamboo spear, square-cut nautilus-shell necklaces, and cockatoo 

 top-knot head-diesses. The soutliern foreign trade, whicli used 

 to come in either directly oi- indirectly from the Mulgrave River, 

 comprised : — long swords, boomerangs, shields, oppossum-string 

 arndets, and the large oval-cut pearl-shell chest ornaments, the 

 last mentioned being said to have reached the Mulgrave River 

 via Atherton and Herlierton, whither it was believed to have 

 been Ijrought from the Gulf Country. The trading, amongst the 

 Cape Grafton Blacks, was not carried out by any particular 

 members of the community, the bartering being apparently 

 personal, each one doing business on his own account. 



5. Amongst the Tidly Ptiver Natives, theie are collective names 

 for goods coming, not going, from one or other direction : — 



(rt) Irakanji (another name for the chau-an basket dilly-bag) 

 implies collectively all the imports from the north and west. 



(6) Kun-yin (another name for the kwi-auchal pearl-shell chest 

 ornament) iiicltidus all the goods that come in from the south. 



On tlie other hand, there is not much barter going on nowadays. 

 To the Clump Point Blacks, these Tully River boys (the Mallan- 

 para) give HeleocJuiris, getting tlie Cryptocarya hancrofti nut in 

 return : to the Cardwell Natives they barter dilly-bngs for which 

 they receive hark-blankets, etc. 



6. The Pennefather River Natives apparently do not carry on 

 much in the way of trade ; they travel but a comparatively short 

 distance up and down the coast-line, and never to any great 

 distance inland. Their northern neighbours, the Mapoon, obtain 

 from the northern shores of I'ort Musgrave the ' ombo ' spears, 

 for these they give bamboo and stingaree-spears, which they have 



.obtained from the Pennefather River men. 



