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more iinportant of the separate groups'* comprising them, the 

 trade routes followed, and some of ti»e more important place- 

 names The Boulia and neighbouring districts have aheady been 

 threshed out in a previous work, while the more important of 

 the remaining details of the other areas have been discussed 

 according to their subject matter in my different Bulletins. 



5. The Rockhanipton and Central Coast-District. ]\Iy tirst 

 introduction to the Rockhanipton Aboriginals was through 

 " Yorkie," whom 1 met early in June 1897'' at Holly Hill where 

 he was taking a contract for clearing timber. He is an aged 

 adult and ex-tracker, and while in the Police Department 

 visited Normanton, Cloncurry, the Upper Leichhardt River, 

 etc., and hence was able to identify the social class-systems of 

 his own group or tribe, the Tarumbal, with those discoverable 

 in the North- Western areas of the State. Like all the rem; 

 nauts of his people, his own wife being a rare exception, he is 

 addicted to the opium-habit. He speaks English veiy well and 

 is locally known as a curiosity in that he often comes in among 

 the settlers to borrow a sixpence, and invariably re|)ays it ! 

 Yorkie travels now between Rockhanipton and Gladstone, 

 occasionally going a bit further south towards Miriam Vale. 

 His family, which accompanies him, consists of a wife (Tujomi), 

 a son (Mari), a pure-blood son-in-law and daughter with pure- 

 blood grandson about fifteen months old, and a half-caste 

 daughter about nineteen years of age; his own individual name 

 is Tu-wal-wal. 



Of the original Rockhanipton tribe, the Tarumbal, not many 

 remain now. At the North Rockhampton Camp, the one near 

 the ponnd-yaid, there were about seven or eight adults, of whom 

 three were females, and two or three children. At the other, 

 on the Yaamba Road where Moore's Creek crosses it, I found 

 four males, two females, all aged and a yQung boy. At South 

 Rockhampton in the Depot Hill Camp, I came across over a 



^ These groups, etc., have been referred to throughout the various 

 Bulletins by their initial letters bracketed. 



•' The notes on this district wore originally written in July, 1898, I 

 having been in continuous correspondenceduring the twelve months' interval 

 witli many of the "old hands'' who supplied me with much important 

 information wliich, at the actual time of my journey, I was unable to 

 obtain. Among such gentlemen, two at least of whom are deceased, I 

 gratefully mention the names of Mr. W. H. Flowers, of Medway, Bogan- 

 tungan (who was on Torilla and Pine Mountain Stations from 1867-01) ; 

 Mr. W. T. Wyndham, of Boyne Island (the first European occupant of 

 Keppcl Island in 1884); Mr. C. K. Roe, of Miriam Vale (tldrty years' 

 resjdt-nt in the district) ; and Mr. A. Cowie (upwards of twenty years in 

 Rockhampton). 



