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Macleay River dialect
x from Henderson's Book x Bale No Bandy Bandy Wall sided or broken down (cliffs)
also name of striped snake
x Barrakeela Dead
Belinpop[isec?]iee Lawyer bush lying down
Belinbihang Lawyer bush or thorn
also talking cross or abusing
Berr Greeting of strangers
Berrapeenee Big headed Mullet
Birregah West
Birripie language Rollands Plains
Bococka Very severe
x Boi dead
Bookwahgan to die
Boolang to jump
Burrigan Boomerang a curved weapon (boomerang)
Boonanghi wild cattle
Boorgurecull bald, no hair
Bore head
Bowenbah smooth green gum tree
Buckelbah Black backed snake
x Budgery food
Bull[u?]ng Squirrel
Bundong A ridge
Burral burr[ie?] name for Anderson's Sugarloaf
Burree The ground
[annotation on the left hand side of the page, legible horizontally:]
The aboriginal words were collected in 1922 by Mrs Hugh McMaugh on my behalf from William [H?]olten, an old intelligent half caste. It is remarkable that there were words for north, south, east, and west
John Weingarth