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25a
River and Seven Rivers country. Rá-kudi (3) occupy the south side of the Pennefather River: Taini-Kudi (4) (taini = mangrove) the country between Pennefather and Pine Rivers, speaking anga-dini (anga = Mt. Pers. pron. [?]); Denya-kudi (5) (denya - bush) low down on the south side of the Batavia River.: and Chong-anji, or Mapoon natives, that portion of the Port Musgrave coast-line terminating in Cullen Point. Other groups are the Laini-ngadi (7), O-amuro-koro (8) who speak te-ana-ngada (te-ana = Mt. Pers. pron. [?]), CheraKuudi (9), Gautundi (10), and Winda-Winda (11) who speak marma-ngati (marma = Mt. Pers. pron. [?]); the last three groups, perhaps the last four now visit Weipa Mission Station on the Embley River. Amongst the real inland or bush-blacks who naturally do not mix with those coastal ones are the Duci, Bentiehaigh [?], and Moreton Tribes, who apparently have no names to specialise themselves by, and possess markedly different vocabularies.
Cullen Point is known as Tratha-m-ballayányana (tratha = a certain fish, the rest of the word sig-nifying sheltering-under-rocks), corrupted into Tullanaringa on the maps. Duyphen Point is called Mo-o-dangana. The country drained by the following rivers is: -
Pennefather River { ringdanúmo arú-indi
Pine River [-] yÃ-parno
Mission River [-] aró-angana
Embley River [-] anénama