“128 THE ABORIGINAL NAMES OF RIVERS 
such words as kung or kong, meaning water at Moreton Bay, and 
kongun, water on the Peel River. The forms guong and guang, 
rain, oceur at Wellington. Katwng at Illawarra means sea; in 
compound words turagung at Port Jackson meant a creek. Nulla- 
konggor in Kamilaroi means a waterhole. At Illawarra ngait- 
is arrested by the great River Ganges in his name was 
formed just in the way which seems to have been universal among 
the Australian aborigines. The word ganga or gunga is the 
its banks, it was simply the river. _So, after all the illustrations 
which have been given that the same radical form exists among 
the aborigines here, we cannot donbt that such names as appear 
in the gazetteer as Conga, and Gungulwa and others, just meant 
the river or the water. Besides the great Indian Gunga, which 
means river, it should also be recorded that in the Chinese, at 
Shanghai, kong is the name for river. 
River names in Kal. 
The vocabularies here also supply abundant evidence that forms | 
in kal, gal, yal or their equivalents are used as root-words to 
denote water. Thus Mitchell in the district of the Bogan records 
the forms kally, gally, gallo as meaning water. alle is water ab 
Regent’s Lake ; hally, rain, and kollee,water,in New England ; kaling 
is water at Lake Macquarie. uliman, a tub, is the water-holder. 
Gol-gol is the word for a spring, as well as the name of a creek. 
en we come to names of streams, we find that there is the 
Coola Creek, the Qaloola Creek. Moreover, the aboriginal name 
for the Lachlan River was Calare; for the Peel River, Callala; and — : 
one of the names of the Darling was Calewatta. Also, one soe 
names for the Murray was Goolwa. In all these cases applying 10 
the Peel, the Darling, the Lachlan, and the Murray, we cannot 
doubt that to the inhabitants on the banks of the : 
yond the Australian boundary we find Khola is a river in Tamul ; 
Kul, a river in Cashmerian ; Kali is a brook in Javanese ; Golem 
is rain in the Malay Archipelago ; Tatathi is the sea in Feejee. 
Plurality of Root-words Jor Water in the same Name. 
As we have passed along, some indications have transpired to 
-the effect that the name of a river, or a word for water, was really : 
made up of two separate roots, each meaning water. There 18 
