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Commissioner of Police Queensland 12443

6.AUG.1900

Name of Place           Meaning or reason why it was given

Booroomguine         thunder

Thoowarong         small brown forest bird about the size of a blackbird

Weeing       fire

Pea       a palm, leaves are used for making water-carriers

Pinkoh       large shell growing on mud flatts  €‹flats

Wutcher-buggum       "Wutcher" means a dog; "buggum" means to come

Kugere-bah       sea-snake

Thoolingbah       nautulus shell

Moo-nole-go       deaf-adder

Buthargum       small honey-suckle tree

Cootchie       iguna

Colbo       small fig

Moolie-ere       black fig growing on the coast

Billi       swamp oak

Boo-i-be-lung       a fruit growing on vine in coast scrubs

Nunni-nunni       leech leech

  

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