Box 5 Folder 3: Victorian place names, 1899-1900 - Page 14

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[Jong a Rogin] A kind of beetle floating on the water at whirlpools in the summer.
[Aberfrufifing?] The native name for the spot where the first [hut] [stood] on [ground] plain. [ing?] a clump of your [trees] in which the [magpies] built every [season]
[Mbormile, Matatama] the native name for a small mound of earth like an [ant?] [heap?], situated about a mile from [Berringame] original homestead, on which the blacks used to [file?] [sticks?], during the winter months, and set fire to them late in the spring, believing that by so doing they made summer come. [Momite?] being the sun in their language.