Notebook about Groote Eylandt kept by Elizabeth A. Taylor, 1937-1939 - Page 20

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Black berries  Gul-inga

                           Grow on big shady

tree by water. very sweet taste

almost like blackberry. eaten in

quantities from Nov. & Jan.

Red berries  grow in tree by the  

beach taste like Hips & [Hews?]

Dec - Jan - Feb.

                                 Roper R.

Small figs  Gooni-yarra

round & red & tasteless, fleshy

some sweet, at Roper

Tiny-red berries  - grow  in bunches

and are boiled like rice_ in  

large quantities. swamp

near  beach  - Nov. to Feb.

Good tucker.

Long red berries  almost chillies

Beach & swamp - Jan - Feb.