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Any group of natives living more or less permanently together may be specialised according to the tract of country where they have first claim on the foods : in other words, they maybe, and are, spoken of according to the place name of their main encampment, their "home" so to speak. Thus we have at Cooktown, the Kai-at-ara ie natives occupying the country round Kai-ar(mt cook)
on the Bloomfield river ...... Yalm ba-ara ?.....?
Wyalla station and sea coast) At bowen bay Atwur-angkana........Anwur ( bowen bay)
cape melville, yalnga-bara..........yalnga( c. Melville)
On the norvanby river karawin-inna ....... Karin (.....)
At duyphen point, Taini-kudi ........ Taini (mangroves)
On the Bavaria riverDenya-kudi.......denya (bush-country)
in broadsound district, riste-burra ........ riste ( country around raspberry creek)
This "home", after which the group of natives occupying it happens to be called may or may not be the birth-place of the occupants, for, according to the distrcit, a child has claims on its father's or on its mother's (Bloomfield) country, and sometimes on neither (Penefather River) *5. In many cases, as in the far Western Districts, owing to forced migrations on account of scarcity of water, advancing European settlement and other causes, the place name of the home has been preserved, but its exact geographical identification lost, *6 while on the Wellesley Islands, and here and there in the Peninsula, natives are to be found amongst whom no necessity has apparently ? for having a collective or specialised name at all.
3. But on a general scale, however, within certain limits, each group has more or less friendly, commercial, or other ? with some one or other of its neigh-.
Sect. 68. Bull. 5 *6 as is certain of the groups in the Boulia District