COAST TBIDES. 
and tlie great soutliem tribe by that of ' Oltbi.* Another 
powerful tribe, which occupies the coast for some distance 
to the eastward of the pcuinsukj ia called, from the 
country it inliabtts, 'Jalakuru/ The Monobar tribe 
resides upon the eastern shores of Van Diemen's Gulf, 
extending to the south nntil it comes in contact with the 
Bimbirik tribe, which occupies the lower parts of the 
Alligator Rivera* These are all comparatively large com- 
munities, but the mountain range beyond is in possession 
of a people which appears to be more numeTOUs than all 
the others put together, and which goes by the general 
name of * Marigi-anbirik,' or people of the mountains. 
This tribe occnpies a great extent of the uplands. Of 
those beyond we know nothing j nor have we any accurate 
details respecting the distribution of the tribes which 
extend from Jalakuru tow'ards the Gulf of Carpentaria* 
The individuals belonging to them that visited the settle- 
ment from time to timCj were in the habit of resorting to 
the ports frequented by the ^lacassar trepang fishers, f^r 
purposes of barter, but the latter were unable to inform 
us whether they resided constantly upon the coast, or 
came from the interior. It was only with regard to one 
singular race, which I shall have occasion to mention 
presently, a people residing upon the north-west horn of 
the Gulf of Carpentaria, that we obtained any correct 
details upon this point. 
" With the Yaako, or Croker Island tribe, our acquaint- 
ance is of older date than with the others, from the 
circumstance of the Raffles Bay settlement, which was 
established in 1837, having been situated within their 
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