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the Daiutree River; clie\' all speak Koko-l>aldja like tiie Baiiiia- 

 billara. Various reinnaiits of what are said to iiave once been 

 large and powerful tribes now run between Rossville, Helen vale 

 and ]\lt. Romeo; they comprise Ai)originals from Tandi (King's 

 Lake country and heads of the Middle and East Normanby 

 Rivers), from Cliokon (district comprising Mt. Komeo, the 

 Tablelands, Slatey Creek, etc., and perhaps Mt. Amos), and 

 Tau-al-tau-al (country west of King's Lake to the Noiniaiihy 

 River). The Wulbur-ara blacks travel from the head of the 

 Mossman River to Byerstowu and May town ; the head-camp of 

 those on the Daintree River would appear to be at Fischer's 

 Selection. I was able to account for two hundred and eigfity- 

 seven natives in the whole of this Bloomtield River District. 



15. The Cooktown and surrounding district (PI. xxviii., fig. 2 ; 

 PI. xxix., fig. 1). South of the Endeavour River the Koko-yimidir 

 dialect is very corrupt, the natives belonging to this area comprising 

 Mt. Cook, the lower portions of the Annan River, and the coast- 

 country down to Archer Point speaking of it as Koko-imoji. The 

 " homes " of these people are at Mount Cook (Kaiar), their actual 

 camping ground at the base of the mountain being called Wain-bur, 

 along the Annan River (Yu-iu country), and in the area (Bul-kon) 

 round about Oakey Creek, a branch of the Annan. Tliey visit 

 Cooktown, known to them all as Kankar, and often camp at the 

 3-Mile (Worra-jagga). North of Cooktown, Cape Bedford is 

 where the natives speak the Koko-yimidir language in its full 

 purity^-. The Starcke River Natives travel to the Mclvor 

 River, to Cape Bedford, and to Cooktown where they camp at 

 the 2-Mile. Among their place-names (these blacks speak 

 Koko-yimidir) on the McTvor are the following — Gorton's 

 Selection, Parra ; Thygeson's Karm-bar ; Bramighaii's, N6-kal ; 

 Webb's, Winbar-winbar. They speak of Barrow Point as 

 Mo-yir ; Look-out Point, Tan-yil ; Cape Flattery, Yorro, and the 

 countr}' through which the Morgan and Jeannie Rivers run as 

 Walmbar and Yorl-bun respectively. More or less west of 

 Cooktown is the Boggy Creek Reserve for Aboriginals, a stretch 

 of country (Birbira) on Butchers Hill Station (Yung-kur). 

 These Yung-kurara used in the old days to have a peregrination 

 including the head of the Daintree River, the Bloomfield River, 

 Mt. Windsor (Kalmbar), and .sometimes the Laura River and 

 Maytown, at )>resent however (1899) there are some party feuds 

 on, and the travelling is very limited. At Maytown (Wulbur- 



^2 Roth— Bull. 2— Sect. 1. 



