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Aboriginal names continued -

White squirrel   Bungu

Black squirrel   Kurrabung

Corpse   Tattee

Whistle   Wooroolbala

Threw it to me   Tuniallija

Nasty taste   Kurterkerine Kurrerkerine

Sing a song   Nungun

Black   Nero

Hit him   Boer

Long time   Taukin

Nothing   Nearkorraine

Sit down   Yellowalla

Go out   Nering nalla

Go away   Nering

What is your name   Naiube

Other side   Kging

This side

Nowhere

Stand up   Warrâwelâ

A dream   Booring

Tooth Ache   Munda

Head ache   Kumbarro

Where have you been   Wandu Barbe

I tumbled down   Warragolambe

A splinter   Chuberra tura Cheelberytura

I have hurt myself   Bungeemelaine

No more   Kaiworine

Dark night   Koora

He told me to   [Indeciferable]a Wee-i-nudia

Why don't you speak   Wee-alloby

What are you laughing at   Mingerring Kuiderling

  "        "      "   crying for   Minyering Tunqulene

Leave it alone   Kumbala

Run   Ooroongala

(second column)

Bidgee   A flat by a river side

Murray or Murrum bidgee   a River of many flats

Kurkur a mouth a beak.   Kurra duck Bidgee - a flat near Braidwood, on the Shoalhaven R. much frequented by the Native companion - 

Marang   Freshwater Crayfish, Murra Merang   Many Crayfish - name of a large lagoon on the southern Coast near Ulladulla - a large dairy farm

Budalla   corruption of the word Eurobodalla

Bungalia   Trunkabella etc - Ulladulla also refer to convenient localities - also Lanella in the Wellington district

(note next to the two last entries says "on the coast")

Gong - refers to a swamp - Mittagong, Cudgegong Yerragong - Gerringong - Wolongong, the waterswamp , or Tom Thumb's Lagoon

 

 

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