BY R. CLIFFE MACKIE. WJ 



of the blacks are becoming confused and forgotten. Iheir 

 " group " distinctions are dying out, and they no longer 

 take the chance of learning the arts peculiar to themselves, 

 as these are fast becoming needless with the advent of white 

 man's food, weapons and laws. 



Only the low-class whites will fraternise with the 

 blacks, who, therefore, learn nothing of us but our vices. 

 The contact with the lowest stratum of our race has not 

 been a benefit to the aboriginals. All honour to those Avho 

 have endeavoured to preserve, help and teach them. As 

 their visual and other sense organs are the faculties most 

 developed in them, any attempt at teaching them should be 

 directed to an appeal through these channels rather than 

 through mental processes beyond their grasp. 



I append a list of native words with their meanings, 

 as these are often of interest to present day readers. 

 Billa . . . . . . = Waterhole, as Wallum- 



billa, Bogrambilla, 



Yulabilla 

 = Waterhole, Manandilla, 

 = Armadilla, Muckadilla. 

 . . = Waterhole, Kobble, Kob- 



ble, Cobblegun. 

 . . = An angle in a creek 

 . . = Big waterhole with rocks 



in. 

 . . = Sun. 



. . _= Pine on one side of the 

 water and box and 

 coolibah on the other. 

 . . = Waterhole, = Whyen- 

 bah, Tarawinnabah, 

 Ibbinbah, Wallanbah. 

 Whyenbah = Water- 

 hole between two 

 high ridges. 

 Wallan 



country. 

 Ba = Water. 

 . . = Red Kangaroo. 



Dilla 



Kobble 



Bumba 

 Cooroora 



Euroka 

 Goodar 



Ba 



= Bendee 



Quey Bunda 



Denown 



Yeppi 



I KoYAL Society. 



Emu. 



Carpet Snake. 



