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Bedford which rises sheer vertically from the surrounding plain. Katu (= end, extremity) is Stanags Point, Broadsound, whilst wollo-in (= iguana's tail) is one of the western spurs in the neighbouring Normanby Range. Dogar (= sand) expresses the country at the base of Mount Saunders, Endeavour R. between it and the sea, and Wargain (= clean sand) the stretch of coast-line between Port Clinton and Shoalwater Bay. Bipu (= any large creek) is the area south of the Fitzroy River between Yaamba and Craignaught. Warra (= wild guava), Butcha (= honey-suckle), Bitchal (= small grub) and Riste (= sand-fly) denote respectively Gracemere, Bayfield, Yaamba, and Raspberry Creek country, and are all indicative of the local phenomena prominently met with (W.H. Flowers).
[Annotation in margin] The limits of the different tracts of country are of course invariably natural: - a mountain range, dessert, plain, forest, scrub, coast-line, or river.
Rivers are named after the tracts of country through which they run, any large-sized stream thus bearing dozens of names in its course. The Munbarra Gold-field was so named after the word Munbar, the mountain range east of the Starcke River, the country on either side of the stream here being Dun-jo, the river itself being accordingly called the Piri-dunjo. So again, the McIvor River, at its mouth, is Piri-Kulal, at Wallace's selection Piri-bindi, and at its function with Cocoa Creek Piri-wundal. The same holds good at Princess Charlotte Bay, where the Koko-warra term for a river is tai-ir, where a portion of the Lower Normanby River at the crossing is known as Tai-ir-Karwin. In some cases, owing to the close proximity of two streams, identical terms are applied; thus the Koko-warra-speaking people call both Marret River and Birthday Creek [indecipherable] Tai-ir-arú-o. A similar practice of naming