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Howard
Eli, creek, (between Torgoon & Gialba) Crab - Creek
Toogoom from Noongoom Snail
Urungin ( blacks name of Isis River) Emu
Dhinnan ( Bks name of Cherwell River) Foot
Teebar oyster
Waungi ( bks name of a Deep water hole 8 miles from Torhomlea towards Guyndah Road - blacks would not go near it on account of a black fellow being drowned in it - as they believed a Carpet Snake was in the water and cicled around the black fellow & took him down) Carpet Snake
Burchur Bks name of Gregory River -
Burtha (Bks name of Isis scrub) -
Burrum River may be from Burra €‹a bed, or where the Blacks met to get married - or it may be derived from Borowme - Thunder
Bunda Uncle or Relative
Bundaberg derives its name from the above - a man named Thompson being a Surveyor employed there and this Black called him Bunda. and when giving the place a name it was called Bunda - and Thompsons son added the berg - a Town So that if this is correct Bundaberg is a compound of Black's [?] and [Norse?]
The act Sergt obtained the forgoing information from the Stely family first settler's here - all the members of this family understood the Bks language and could speak it then fairly well. There ar no Blacks in this District for the last Four 4 or Five 5 years only one half cast - only the Steley family knows more things he does
Laurence Shelan
acting Segt. Re No 607 In charge of Station