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23b.
17. The Middle Palmer River Disctrict is of interest specifically in that the Koko-minni, who occupy it, form the means of communication between natives on the Gulf and East Coasts. These blacks have their man camp, at the head of the King River at a spot known as Turangga; their country south of the Palmer River they call Churamada, while that which lies north of it is Oninta. They speak of Mt. Daintree as Konongo, Ternhill Mountain as Mo-yeraka, and Strathleven Country as arthau. In 1896 their estimated number was over 200. They have a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and visit the Koko-yerlantchi natives on the Laura River at Maytown which they speak of as Walpom, and Palmerville Known to them as Koron. Their fighting expeditions take them westwards down to the junction of the Palmer and Mitchell Rivers, to a locality known as Antalba where they fight the Kau-waranga. When after food they travel via Maytown to Limestone - yams being very plentiful on this routh - and there come into contact with the Hodgkinson (Union Camp) Blacks, etc. Nowadays, they never go in a southerly direction having been hunted from Gamboola and Highbury. For purposes of trade they travel northwards to meet the Koko-warra, Kokonarmul, and Koko-olkulo people. The Kauwaranga follow the course of the Lower Mitchell River for as its junction with the Palmer River two important Gulf tribes with which these Kokominni come into indirect contact are the Gunanni and the Kundara. The Gunanni are coast-blacks running between the Mitchell and