FAMILY NAMES. 
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South-eastern Australia. One singular peculiarity 
is described by Captain Grey. 
“ One of the most remarkable facts connected with the 
natives, is that they are divided into certain great families, all the 
members of which bear the same names, as a family or second 
name : the principal branches of these families, so far as I have 
been able to ascertain, are the 
Ballaroke 
Tdondarup 
Ngotak 
Nagarnook 
Nogonyuk 
Mongalung 
Narrangur. 
But in different districts the members of these families give a 
local name to the one to which they belong, which is understood 
in that district, to indicate some particular branch of the principal 
family. The most common local names are, 
Didaroke 
Gwerrinjoke 
Maleoke 
Waddaroke 
Djekoke 
Kotejumeno 
Namyungo 
Yungaree. 
u These family names are common over a great portion of the 
continent ; for instance, on the Western coast, in a tract of 
country extending between four and five hundred miles in lati- 
tude, members of all these families are found. In South Austra- 
lia, I met a man who said that he belonged to one of them, and 
Captain Flinders mentions Yungaree, as the name of a nativ© 
in the Gulf of Carpentaria. 
