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Tappin Tappin Creek = Tappit was a Dingo
and being repeated, that they were plentiful
there = The other termination = very common in
their names of places was "Kite" or eather "Kithe"
it is very hard to spell and very hard to pronounce
correctly = it signified having = but the Whites
cut nearly all the [?] names short = take
Kimbriki = correctly it was Kimbrikithe", that is
"having Kimbri" = that is a long graß like weed
that grows in the River, "Croki" was "Crokithe"
having "crow" their name for the "Bultrout" that
stinging fish (one of the Gurnards Perch tribe) "Yankingithe"
having "Yankin", a long leaved plant that grows
on the River bank =(they used the long leaves of
it to coax the lobsters (YengÄk) out of their
holes with it =) [??] having ferns =
Bummingithe = having leaches = (Well named - it
was the Brush part of our farm) Taree from the
"Tareebit" (In many cases the termination was droped,
was the fruit of the rough leaved fig tree, Brimbin
was correctly [?] = that was a lot of
Stringey bark trees (Brembakh) Killawarra from
Killawarrebakh = the forest or Shingle oak
Kimdabakh = the Apple tree = Cobakh the
Lignumvite = Lignabakh = Ironbark = Marle
from Marleebakh (I don't know English name
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