Item 05: 'Aboriginal words and names chiefly from the Upper Clarence River Dialect, collected by Thomas George Hewitt of Grafton and Lismore', ca. 1909 and transcribed with additional notes by Robert L. Dawson, 6 June 1938 - Page 29

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Note

    x In the "Tindal Letters" from the Clarence, 1843 to 1849, it

       is recorded that a bull, recently imported from England,

       was being driven from Grafton to Ramornie when

       it fell over a cliff and was killed. This may be 

       the "cliff where" the accident happened.

Note

     "Un-dum-gar" for a cattle station meet Mt Lindesay is more

nearly correct than the usual "Unumgat" though the sound to me 

was more like "Un-tum-gar", or a sound between d and t, if such

is possible to any one but a black fellow.

The late J.C.Edwards of Roseberry, an adjoining station, gave

me the name for Kyogle as "Cur-ro-ka" and not "Cha-wy-bin."

It is possible there may have been two names, one for the 

mountain (Fairymount) and another for Fawcett Plain.

'Kyogle' (bustard or plain turkey) was originally the black's 

name for Runnymede Plain until Mr Alex Mackellar

shifted it to his station home at Fairymount about 1866.

I prefer "T'chal-gum-buin" for Mr. Lindesay, I have heard

it so pronounced very often by the Richmond River blacks.

                                                                     R.L.D