NORTH yUKKNSLANI) KTHNOGKAPHY — ROTH. 87 



In connection with the Mt. Hedlow ones it is of interest to 

 note that tlie hast survivor, " Old Charlie " was buried 30th 

 June 1?97, a few weeks before my visit, at a si)ot about twenty 

 yards from Mr. Bosonnvorth's on the Greenlake road {i.e., the 

 liranch-oflf from Wyatt's on the main Kockhampton-Yeppon 

 road). 



7. At Yaamba (PI. XXV., fig. l)is a small camp consisting in the 

 main of old and diseased individuals, of mixed origin, though the 

 Bichalburra Group of the Warrabal Tribe constitute the local 

 one : none of them however could speak or understand English 

 sulhciently well to allow of my collecting a reliable vocabulary. 

 On the Yaamba-Marlborough road in Smith's Paddock at tlie 

 4-Mile Creek {i.f., four miles south of Priuchester) is a camp of 

 three old males and one aged female, remnants of the Mu-in- 

 burra Group of the Ku in-murr-burra Tribe. This tribe owned 

 the coast-country comprising Torilla, Banksia, Tilpal, Raspberry 

 Creek and Pine Mountain ; Torilla was the main camp or home 

 whence the blacks would travel down the coa6t to Emu Park, 

 and inland to Yaamba and Rockhampton. At Marlborough I 

 met some Bauwi-wurra natives, some eighteen or twenty of 

 whom are still living. Their chief camp is at Apis Creek, the 

 other side of the range, their " walk-about " including Marl- 

 borough, Stoodleigh, Princhester, Leura, Waverley, Willanji, 

 Tooioombah, and Broadsound, i.e., 8t. Lawrence where thej* ex- 

 change courtesies with the visiting Mackay Blacks, a fact which 

 accounted for my coming across two Mackay-made boomerangs 

 in the Marlborough camp. 



8. Turning attention now to the southern portions of this 

 Rockhampton (Fl. xxvi) and Central Coast-District there are the 

 Gladstone and Miriam Vale, as well as the Island Blacks to con- 

 sider At Gladstone, I visited the native camp situate at Police 

 Creek about three miles from town; it was stocked with fowls, cats, 

 and ilogs. The several bark huts were pretty substantially built, 

 giving shelter to twelve or fourteen occupants, mostly old men 

 and WDmen. Some of these blacks work during the day either 

 in the township at liouse-work, or on the shore at fishing, and 

 together with various odd jobs, manage to get along fairly com- 

 fortably ; everything however in the way of money is sacrificed 

 for opium. They are of very mixed origin being representatives 

 of Duppil (from Barney Point), Koreng-Koreng (Miriam Vale), 

 Wakka ((jlads one, Calliope), Yungkono (Bundaberg) and other 

 tribes. As a remiiant oi the Wakka, there was "Palmer " (who 

 long ago was in the employ of .Mr. C. Hedley at Boyne Inland) 

 a well-known Gladstone identity ; he is an old ex-tracker, very 



