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Rockhampton. C. District
Police Station, Marlborough
26th April 1900.
Commissioner of Police Queensland
2.JUN.1900
Re attached Aboriginals Dailect €‹.
First Class Constable George Levey c 52 herewith returns form of Aboriginals dialect, as instructed by Inspector Meldrum's Circular Memorandum of the 10th Ultimo. The Constable wishes to draw his Inspector's attention to the fact, that the language spoken by the aboriginals of this locality differs from those of the surrounding Stations. From information received from the old inhabitants here, it would appear that where the blacks were numerous the boundaries of the Marlborough tribe, would begin some-where about Yaamba, and run about 20 miles this side of the Coast to St Lawrence, and thence to the McKenzie River, and followed that river and the Fitzroy down again to Yaamba. The blacks at Yaamba spoke the same language, but at Torilla, and all along the Coast to St. Lawrence, at St Lawrence along the McKenzie River, and on the other side of the Fitzroy from Marlborough the language spoken was different. When riding through the bush in many places, especially in gaps or passes through ranges or mountains, large heaps of stones built to dome shape, about from four to five feet in height can be seen, and the old inhabitants of Marlborough consider these heaps of stone to be the boundaries of the various tribes.
The names of places mentioned in the accompanying form are spelt in English as near as possible to the Aboriginals pronunciation.
George. W.Levey
Constable 1/c R.N. 506.
The Inspector of Police
Rockhampton.