The Aborigines of Victoria: With ...

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By Robert Brough Smyth

Published 1878
Govt. Print

Ethnology

Original from the University of Michigan

v.2

Digitized Aug 8, 2007

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Appendices (vol.II, p.[221]-434) by P. Chauncy, W. Ridley, A. A. C. Le Souëf, A. W. Howitt, J. M. Davis, W. Locke, A. F. A. Greeves, G. B. Halford, and J. Milligan.

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Section 14	339

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Section 17	350

Section 18	360

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Section 20	364

Section 21	366

Section 22	370

Section 23	379

Section 24	435

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Colac - Page 13
The distance from Balmoral to Colac in a straight line is about one hundred and thirty miles. THE YAKRA AND WESTERN PORT. ...
more pages: 12 15 165 179

Kumbo - Page 287
But if Kumbo, instead of marrying a Matka, takes a Budha (with a different totem), his children are Ippai and Ippatha; and if Murri, ...
more pages: 286

Swan Hill - Page 249
The Murray River natives use spears for fishing made of the reed which grows in vast beds from Swan Hill downwards for thirty miles, and also at Lake ...
more pages: 195

Port Lincoln - Page 272
A most extraordinary practice was resorted to by some of the natives inhabiting the country near Port Lincoln. They used to cut open as great a length ...
more pages: 245 247 280 321

Nanma - Page 27
6. To show how the relative pronouns are used, I give an example or two. For instance, "Who goes with me?" is—. Nanma gegan thulo manga neeta? ...
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Bailan - Page 154
They claimed as their territory the country extend-ing from Bailan on the south to the junction of the Serpentine and the Loddon on the north, ...
more pages: 233

Perth - Page 278
Bland sent him by himself with a warrant of commitment 60 miles down to Perth. He walked straight down to gaol, and faithfully delivered himself up to ...
more pages: 225 226 248 251 262 279 281

Melbourne - Page 120
The aforesaid will, I trust, be to the committee and philologists some clue to the language of the two Melbourne tribes, comprehending no small extent ...
more pages: 91 118 126 254 261 269

Sibu - Page 7
philology we have the verbal origin of tree, serpent, and other kinds of worship, as I have shown in my late paper on Sibu and Siva worship. ...

New Norfolk - Page 397
On the estuary of the Derwent these remains are found for several miles above Hobart Town, towards New Norfolk, until they disappear altogether at ...

Mount Gambier - Page 269
At Mount Gambier also there are some very large caverns in the limestone rock, believed by the natives to be haunted. ...

Mildura - Page 10
Kulkyne is eleven miles from Tyntyndyer ; Tyndyndyer is about one hundred miles from Mildura ; and Mildura is sixteen miles from Yelta. ...

Guildford - Page 269
An account of the fight, and of the person of Bogan, was given to me by some of the settlers when I went to reside at Guildford, on the Swan ; and on ...
more pages: 226

Adelaide - Page 274
vicinity of Lake Hope, some six hundred miles north from Adelaide, states that the tribes in the vicinity of Cooper's Creek number about 1030 persons. ...
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Sydney - Page 225
Wills in Queensland was probably owing to the conduct of some white men who had shortly before captured and forcibly carried oif to Sydney two lads ...
more pages: 120 320

Charlotte - Page 320
I knew another instance where a lubra called Charlotte, who had been taken away off the coast when a girl by a party of sealers, and was living with a ...
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York - Page 283
This colonist was afterwards appointed by the Governor chief of the native police at York, and while I was in that district information was brought to ...
more pages: 222 223 257 278 280

Launceston - Page 390
I think, in the year 1824 or 1825 that some ten or twelve natives appeared on the west bank of the Tamar, opposite Launceston. ...
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Port Louis - Page 268
Mons. de Chazal, of Port Louis, effectually put a stop to any more suicides on his plantation by telling the coolies that he would cut off the feet of ...

Mudgee - Page 285
James Günther, of Mudgee, long a Missionary in the Wellington district, has recorded in his grammar of the " Wiradhurri" language that the thoughtful ...

Roebourne - Page 230
Tuckey, of the cutter Jessie, engaged in the pearl-fishing, on his voyage from Roebourne to Fremantle, put in near the north-west coast to land some ...

Geelong - Page 194
WaUup The curlew, according to Geelong natives. These are all names of particular swamps. It is almost impossible to obtain from an Aboriginal a ...

Albany - Page 255
himself to me with one leg only, and requested me to supply him with a wooden leg, which some settler had told him he could procure in Albany. ...
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Moora - Page 426
Wingytcllangta - Puggalcna parrack. boorack. Tribes about Mount Hoyal, Brune Island, liccberche Bay, and the South of Tasmania. Mitah. Lyenné. Moora ...
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Harrow - Page 61
station near Harrow, lying down, rest, summer, heat salt. a native weapon, name of a lagoon, Fine hills, a stone, rock, ...
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Sanyo - Page 205
Sanyo, the back. A certain kind of smooth grass. The dust raised by a running emu. Burrvm, muddy, dirty ; || beet is a word for water. Very muddy. ...

Bunbury - Page 254
"When residing at Picton, near Bunbury, a native about twenty-five years of age applied to me, as a doctor, to extract the wooden barb of a spear, ...

Kani - Page 33
Looked another there more blacks and they got by lifting and saw a black's Kani thungo wang-a ma kirtirra matho. ...
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Dublin - Page 269
Jacob, of Dublin, who had it set up in Trinity College Museum, as I was afterwards informed by his son in Melbourne. ...

Managa - Page 98
Noiit to manang. Their hand. Tarang. Tree. Kanee tarang. The tree. Manee tarang. This tree. Managa tarang. That tree, Tarang benjeroo. Tree two. ...

Lisbon - Page 262
In 1848, a ship arrived at Fremantle from Lisbon, bringing about forty Spanish and Italian priests and students, headed by Don Serra, ...

Kyabram - Page 198
Kyabram - - - -. Mount Scobie ... Merrigum - - - -. Gulgila -. Wyuna - ... St. Germain - - - -. Kotupna - ... Ardpatrick - - - -. Goulburn River - ...

Oxford - Page 288
But its appellative, used by children in calling on their mothers, is Guni (pronounced just as ywt, is pronounced at Oxford). ...

London - Page 234
At a meeting of the Ethnological Society in London, in 1864, Sir Charles Nicholson alluded to the discovery of great numbers of flint implements by Mr ...

Bury - Page 416
Bury (to) -. Buttock ... By-and-by ... Buzz (like a fly; also. name of fly). Come along, I want you. Call -. Canoe (catamaran). Carcass - ...

Gibraltar - Page 5
Gibber, Kibba, or Kepa, a rock; Arab, kaba; Moorish, giber, as in Gibraltar ; Hebrew, kef as. Cobbera or Cobra, the head; English, cob; Spanish, ...

Goulburn - Page 198
Goyla, by Goulburn tribe ; Gun-. gupnas, by Murray tribe. - Mooroopna .... - Kanny goopna. - Lal-lal •. - Menngorn. - Yoiiang -. - Myrniong - - - - - ...

Kambia - Page 9
Kambia. Naamagh. Therto, Kokoro. Boorlkee. Maykee. Uree. Telka. Therlinya. Nandee. Mambanna, Mera ...

Yaan - Page 13
Yaan. Torporrum. Morkalla. Morrayail. Weeing - - -. Yoruockjaa -. Law -. Car ... Wing -. Conmoit -. Mairompial -. Waa -. Raima -. Camperdown. ...

Scarsdale - Page 192
Scarsdale • Carngham - Snake Valley, Carlisle Bailie's Creek Chepstowe Mount Emu Boringa yallar Calpan bartick - Gerup-gerup Wonagreck Yarram-yarram. ...

Pogana - Page 424
Pokana or Pogana. Progga-langhta -. Weeytena ... Nowettye-eleebana -. Lyinganena. Leranna. Tendyagh or Tentya -. Trulee. Tyackanoyack - ...

Thun - Page 33
All the blacks eaid some Thun garra kani mal NATIVE STORY.—Bundak Wark—English. Boolung kani, bra il vjoorcat, tharbla Paddy batha Kitty. ...

Menia - Page 421
Menia or Mungwcnya. Lueeteianna. Tongwamma. Munganna - т -. Lottah. Tigenna. Leryna or Lo lupgta -. Lerytiana -. Pugganga lewa or. Monghtamena ...

Turt - Page 78
Durt or Turt. - M-rarng. - Tan-biU. - Bore-un. - Nyoœ-ee. Boör-cook,. - Eer-arook. - Wil-lah. - Jah. - Jah. - Bu-ar ------. - Ng-ar-mutch, ...
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Belfast - Page 187
Belfast - - Nourmath. Allansford - - Terong (Hopkins River). Squattlesea - - Poo-ambete. Hexham - - Bulla-bulla (good). ...

Monino - Page 46
Monino -. Moninoyeck. Morriacky - - -. Maalgoompip. Nanyei -. Nyogoong -. Nyat bonn mabra. Nanyo nayoon f -. Nangoorna f. Nimtyerrwat. Nyagach - ...

Waterloo - Page 194
Waterloo Swamp - Range at head of Waterloo - Lexton ------ Wimmera - Langi-geran - - - - - Yalla-y-poora - Bald Hills, near Yalla-y-poora ...

Biak - Page 38
Biak. Naroot. Kowern. Koola. Baan. Bathalook. Keratung. Thurung. Toon yarah. Koon gwan. Loowa birri. Wä jan. Brak. Toara blang. Barlijan. Brumbin. ...

Dalian - Page 44
Dalian ... Danta ... Danta gaamparyviik -. Daap tap kooya •. Dat-ngat - - -. Dattuch --. Diln-dilm ... Darn dam. Dootwillang. Darnoylong. Dutt yerrung ...

Yunak - Page 105
Yunak. Wol-anin. Tal-lang. Kal-ge-grang. Bathel-moon. Morrt. Ngang-gerr. Che-brong. Yerrin. Tootkorab. Bam-ie. Clierrin-neen. Marr. ffganat-a. ...

Kandara - Page 9
Kandara. Pina. Yhnk-ko. Pytoa. Boorlee. Ton-kon-ko. Minki. Nan-day-lee Koon-ega. Merndi. Yernda]. Yarra. Yarra. Tooroo. Bilyarra. Waukoo. Bool-oolye ...

Lora - Page 420
Lora. Oolrah. Ooee. Mapilriagunara. Yeackanara. Riawé. Waggelé. Neeuubrulatai. Loweeny rulloi Icah. or Loweeny loileah. 'Ngana kankapea ool- ...

Bona - Page 9
Bona. Wongda. Bickya. Wokka -. Eeoga. Tainya. Mootta. Копа. Hwammery-. Warkil. Kyemery -. JHhliira, Lower Murray. ...

Calpan - Page 192
Scarsdale • Carngham - Snake Valley, Carlisle Bailie's Creek Chepstowe Mount Emu Boringa yallar Calpan bartick - Gerup-gerup Wonagreck Yarram-yarram. ...