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From To the
Licensed Surveyor, District Surveyor
A. Ebsworth Wagga Wagga
Re Circular from Head Office concerning Native names asked for by the Anthropological Society
West Wyalong
15th Sept 1899
Referring to your circular covering one from
the Anthropological Society of Australasia,
asking for assistance in collecting Native
names of places in the Colony with their
meanings, I regret that I have not
paid attention to the subjects and the
aborigines never interested me.
I have at various times heard many names
given by them to places but without inquiring
as to meanings - There is one name of a
place, I believe on the lower darling River,
which has always struck me as being
extraordinary but I have never been
able to learn its significence - It is
"Mungadallaxringadallaxlallalallaxlat lat."
It is quite euphonious if divided up as I
have indicated by the x marks.
I will bear your circular in mind and
if I hear any meanings for Native name
will send you the information
Alfred Ebsworth