Blacks of the Manning River District, New South Wales, 1851-1912 - Page 53

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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 (Yengāk) 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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