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water-holes (Pd rul) close by the 12-Mile (from Kaglaii Head- 

 station) Stockyard already referred to ; Mount Larconibe they 

 saw in the distance. Raglan country was at one time occupied 

 by Riiii-lmrra and Hurkavara (groups perhaps of the (Jrambal) 

 all dead now ; togetlier with the blacks from Gladstone, from 

 Miriam Vale, and even (the Vungkono) from Bundaberg they 

 used to meet the Tanimbal in battle iiere at Parul. Mr. 

 McDonald of Holly Hill tells nje that twenty years ago he has 

 seen as many as a couple of hundred natives congregating here 

 just for a fight. Occasionally, the i'arumbal would pay a visit 

 to (jlracemere and Westwood, and in very eaily times weie known 

 to have travelled up to Mount Morgan. 



6. Graceniere, in the olden days, formed tlie home of the 

 Warra-burra Group (of the Tarumbal) ; their peregrinations 

 included Calliungal, Mt. Morgan, Westwood, Rosewi.od, Rock- 

 hampton, Kimi Park and Gladstone, than which they never 

 travelled further south ; there are no blacks at the station now. 



At Mount Morgan, I visited the blacks' camp situate some 

 two and a half miles from the township on the banks of the Dee 

 River. There are a dozen adult natives here of whom eight are 

 women, half of these aged, and several children, the former 

 living ill fairly comfortable circumstances with their Chinese 

 and Malay partners. They have their meals at fixed hours, jtass 

 an existence far less debased than their sable brethren at Rock- 

 hampton, and at the time of my visit had up the clothes' line on 

 which the children's garments, nicely washed and mended, were 

 drying. These blacks are of Rockhampton and Giacemeie 

 parentage, the original local WoUea-burra, whose " walk-about " 

 extended out towards the Prairie and Banana way, having all 

 been exterminated. 



Rosewood was the home of another Tarumbal Gi'oup, the 

 Karun-burra, whose peregrinations included Morinisii, Yaamba, 

 Rockhampton, Westwood, and the Dawson River as far as 

 Duariiiga. At the {)resent day, when visiting Rockhampton — 

 there are still a few surs'iving — they camp on the south side in 

 tiie scrub at the base of the Hospital Hill. 



Another of the Tarumbal groups, the Kaki-wurra, hav e their 

 home at Yeppoon, where there are just about a score left. In 

 the old days, they used to visit and be visited by the Keppel 

 Islanders, and would also travel coast-wise to Woodlands, 

 I'.yheld, Maryvale, up along the Peninsida and back again ; at 

 the present time, they occasionally journey to Kmu Paik and to 

 Rockhampton. fjong ago, Yeppoon used to be a meeting place of 

 the roiilli, Bockhampton, Vaamba, and Mt. Hedlow natives. 



