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                               Pilliga      

Name of Place Meaning or Reason why it was given Name of Place Meaning or Reason why it was given
Minnon A muddy water hole Muliendien (Tank) An eagle hawk seen
Ballarawa Near plenty of white wood trees. Millimiberau Stone that blacks burn to make chalk milk - to paint themselves with
Billaea (Pilliga) Head of an oak scrub Bugera (Tank) near where yams grow that the blacks eat
Keerybar near swamp where plenty of cray fish Terella (Tank) plenty of reeds growing round it.
Wambadule Stupid fellow Weetallabah No wood near
Ceelnoy Bad smell Mallboon one string
Bugilbone near hard clay Bundibar A lot of native weapons found
Quatawendi Fruit fallen off Quandon trees Debeiel he only got tea[?]
Quatabri (cuttabri) Quandon trees with plenty of fruit on them Burenbri Saw a man with a native sheild
Drilldool Small water reeds Burreu A boomerang
Millie Pipe clay in bed of creek Maboo near beefwood trees
Warian Water reeds Toulerawa reeds spreading out on the water
eeri tree crickets Cubbaroo A man with a good head
Miree Star    
Dooboo (Dubbo Creek) A man made at Bora    
Bae-id (Namoi River) Plenty of leeches in it    
Buriugi A leech    
Camal one head    
Meir (Meit) Windy    
Bulleri a jealous man    
Yarrandool a child picked up a little stone    
Yarraman a horse    
Que etal Cattle    
Ejoo (Etoo) I bit him    
Millie-morimen plenty of swallows    
Cubberinba plenty wild [unions]?    
Wangau big sheets of bark    
Coolaman tub or canoe made of bark
of bend of tree
   
Euligal Young trees or suckers    
Billiga Creek or lagoon    
Keilindi Stinking water hole    
Goangra bloody battle fought -there    
Koodooboo mundi Where big cod fish caught    
Terembine a leg    
Kerau A dusty place  

P. Pringle S.C.
Pilliga. 11/9/99

 

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