NORTH VUKENSLANI) KrilNOliHArU Y— KOTH. 85 



dozen younger adults of both sexes ; these latter occupy Llieir 

 time in collecting ferns, manufacturing " weapons " for the local 

 European market, and selling their women to their white, 

 Chinese, or Kanaka camp-visitors. Among them was a surly 

 looking woman, a Maikulan from the Upper Leichhardt River 

 who had lieen brought down here by the police, as a tracker's 

 wife, but as usual never sent home again. The pre.sent-day real 

 old medicine-man of this Tarumbal Tribe is one "Buckley" 

 who, with a couple of younger women, resides perniatiently at 

 Balnagowan Station ; he has the reputation of knowing every- 

 thing, all the legends about animals and birds, about death and 

 ghosts, etc., but unfortunately he is too old and decrepid to 

 render himself sufficiently intelligible. I met with some settled 

 remnants of this same trilie again at Mount Morgan, whereas at 

 Emu Pai'k which comprises country certainly belonging to them. 

 I saw none at all, though I was informed that "Old Pluto," a 

 locally-born black is occasionally to be found there. The head- 

 centre or " home " camp of the various groups comprising the 

 Tarumbal tribe used to be in the neighbourhood of the site now 

 Occupied by Paterson's slanghtei-yard, about one and a quarter 

 miles from Rockhampton in the eastern angle of the triangle 

 formed by the main road, Alligator Creek, and the main drain, 

 this block of country being known as Raudol. Large numbers 

 of them have been buried between the yard and the creek and 

 up along it, on the township side, whence, in times gone by, 

 their bones were subsequently removed to hollow trees. In 

 close proximity to this camp used to be their permanent initi- 

 ation ceremony (Bora) ground, called Kang-kal. They occupied 

 country on both sides of the Fitzroy River which they crossed 

 in canoes. On the northern side of the river they travelled to 

 Broadmoant, Balnagowan, and to Emu Park where they would 

 exchange courtesies with the blacks from the northern-coast-line 

 and islands, as well as with those from Yaamba, Mt. Hedlow, 

 etc. South of the river, they would go, for fighting purposes 

 only, along the present Rockh.tmpton-Gladstone road as far as 

 the site of the present " 12-Mile Stock-yard," i.e., the water- 

 lioles about two and a half miles north of Raglan Post and 

 Telegraph Office. Starting on this route fiom Rockhampton 

 they passed Archer's Cattle-station at the 15-Mile, the 6-3Iile 

 Creek (Ri-umba) close to Cross's Hotel at Bajcjol, the water-hole 

 (Rular-viillam), the name of which " Yorkie " says gave the white 

 settlers their present township name of Ulam) at the same 

 hostelry, the 1-Mile Creek (Kindor) beyond tlie hotel, the stony 

 ridges (Karaivi) three miles further on, the succeeding six or 

 seven miles of dense scrub (Kiitalmal) until they reached the 



