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Tewantin
1:+Noosa Merthyn Soul
Tewah Unknown
Kirrkau A channell cut by tides
Caloola The Cypress Pine tree
Toolou (Island) a house
Walvi A Picaninny or baby
Kin Kin an ant
Cootharaba a Nullah Nullah club
Elauda Black Swan
Greening do
Boreeu a fish. bouy bream
Mulloo a Black Stone or Snake
[Wov ai?] An iquana
3:++Tewantin. "Barrebee" A vine the roots being used for food
Muuna. (Island) Black Mud
Cooloy A Shark
2:+: Doonan- " Taroom"- A Scrub fruit, wild range
Cooiroy, Mt an Opossum
Coorooeva, Mt a mountain on NC railway. held Sacred by blacks
Coorau, Mt S Stone pillar
Booudareeu pl a prickly vine
Wooraba Box tree
Towaee a dead tree
Kocki a green tree, also, blood
Mooloy oyster rock
Neringcurboy / Meringarba The pandanus or Bredfruit tree
Moyoomba I am perspiring
Woolandum Stunted Honey Suckle
Booninbah a Bloodwood tree
Coongdalba a Spring of good water
Eudlo an Eel
Woombye The Black Myrtle
Nambour Tea tree bark
Kikiamba a reed Necklet
Derree A star
Derrooeu The Sun
Babune Moou-also, father
Thagiue Rainbow
Wireen a pounded rush used to absorb honey & sucked
Teebeen. (Creek) A mosquito
Eli The Male crab
Nelloor The female Crab
Mundoolum, on Frasus Island- The death adder
Teebah The oyster
Wawoon Scrub Turkey
Wawang a Shell fish
Eerwah Mt oyster
Coondoo, Mt Food
Wyene Shallow water
4 Coonvora, Mt unknown
Pinbarren, Mt unknown
Erumundi unknown
Coolothin unknown
Noonella unknown
1. Said to be a corruption of No, Sir, the second name given is the native name to which the meaning Refers.
2 Both are native names no meaning is known for Doonan.
3. Second name is native name, no meaning found for Tewantin
4 Five names are given with meanings unknown. these names have been used from time immorial & the meanings are lost.
[Jou?] Pickering
Actg Sgt A311
Tewantin 6.5.00