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at the other, on the Yaamba Road where Moore's Creek crosses it, I found four males, two females, all aged and a young boy. At South Rockhampton in the Depot Hill Camp, I came across over a dozen younger adults of both sexes; the latter occupy their time in collecting [?]e[?]us, manufacturing 'weapons' for the local European market, and selling their women to their white, Chineis [?}], or Kanaka camp visitors. Among them was a surly looking woman, a Maikulan from the Upper Leich-hardt River who had been brought down here by the police, as a tracker's wife, but as usual never sent home again. The pressent-day [present-day] real old medicine-man of this Tarumbal Tribe is one 'Buckley' who, with a couple of younger women, resides permanently at Balnagowan Station; he has the reputation of knowing everything, all the legends about animals and birds, about death and ghosts etc but unfortunately he is too old and de-crepid to render himself sufficiently intelligible. I met with some settled remnants of the same tribe again at Mount Morgan, whereas at Emu Park which comprises country certainly belonging to them. I saw none at all, though I was informed that "Old Pluto", a locally-born black is occasionally to be found there. The head-centre or "home" camp of the various groups comprising the Tarumbal tribe used to be in the neighbourhood of the site now occupied by Paterson's Slaughter-yard, about 1 1/4 miles from Rockhampton in the eastern angle of the triangle formed by the main road, Alligator Creek, and the main drain, this block of country being known as Randol. Large numbers of them have been buried between the yard and the creek and up along it, on the township side, whence, in times gone by, their bones were subsequently removed to hollow trees. In close proximity to this camp