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me, till we managed to surprise aiul catcli eight or more of the 

 tribe that inhabited the south end of tlie island. Mr. Ross was 

 there at the tinje hnt he could not get them to communicate with 

 him ; he offeied them tea and bread, but they only smelt it and 

 would not taste. Then I told him 1 would try my hand, and J 

 sat down opposite to tliem in the same way I had learned and 

 seen years before on the Mclntyre River, and smoothed the 

 ground next me with my hand, when " Old Yulowa " who was 

 evidently the head-man, or doctor, of the tribe, got up and sat 

 down by me at once. 1 then took some sugar and mixed it 

 witli water, broke a little bread in it, and let him see me eat it, 

 and he tasted it; he then called out to the other blacks that it 

 was the hone}' of the Banksia (the blossoms of which they used 

 to steep in water and drink), and they all ate. After this, 

 whenever I saw them, they used to come up to me ... in 

 time, they used to fetch Hsh." The name of Yulowa was given 

 the boy by Wyndhani after that of a bay on the island facing 

 Emu Park ; he is an old man novv, but ha-< a son, " Paddy," and 

 the little female grandchild left him. Wyndham says that, in 

 his day, Big Keppel was inhabited by two " tribes," the one on 

 the south extremity speaking Tarundjal dialect, the other, on the 

 north, a Broadsound one. A peculiarity amongst them is their 

 rapidity of utterance, a fact of wliich 1 had been previously in- 

 formed by the Rockhampton and Yeppoon natives, the latter on 

 this account speaking of them as "crows." 



11. Thanks to the kindness of .Mr. W. H. Flowers who 

 supplied me svith a copy of a map of the district which he drew 

 up in 1881, it is possible to indicate approximately (PI. xxvi.) 

 the boundaries of the main tribes, some half dozen or so, 

 which in those days roamed the country. These main tribes 

 were formed of various groups, of greater or less number, named 

 as a rule after some physical peculiarity of that particular spot 

 of country wliich the individual members regarded as their home. 

 One or two of the main tribes have disappeared in their entirety, 

 though several of the groups, as already mentioned, I was 

 fortunate enough to meet with. In the following list Mr. 

 Flowers has given me a translation of the ditt'erent group-names ; 

 the suffix — burra denotes of, or belonging to. The reference 

 numbers are marked on the Sketch-map in circles. 



I 1. Katu-bmra end, tinish 



2. wandu- ,, mountain 



Ku-in-n»urr-buna | S. wollo-in- ,, iguana tail 



Tribe -J 4. warm- ,, " damper " of zaniia nut 



[Ku-in-murr=a plain] I -5. mu-in- ,, ashes 



I 6. pankan- ,, gap in a range 



I 7. riste- ,, sand -fly 



