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6. Gracemere, in the olden days, formed the home of the Warra-burra Group (of the Tarumbal): their peregrin-ations included Calliungal, Mt. Morgan, Westwood, Rosewood, Rockhampton, Emu Park and Gladstone, than which they never travelled further south.There are no blacks at the station now.
At Mount Morgan, I visited the blacks camp situated some 2 1/2 miles from the township on the banks of the Dee River. There are a dozen adult natives here of whom eight are women, half of these aged, and several children, the former living in fairly comfortable circumstances with their Chinese and Maylay partners. They have their meals at fixed hours, pan an existence far less debased than their sable brethren at Rockhampton, and at the time of my visit had up the clothes' line on which the children's garments, nicely washed and mended, were drying. These blacks are of Rock.hampton and Gracemere parentage, the original local Wollea-burra, where "walk-about" extended out towards the Prairie and Banana way, having all been exterminated.
Rosewood was the home of another Tarumbal Group, the Karum-burra, whose peregrinations included Morinish, Yaamba, Rockhampton, Westwood, and the Dawson River as far as Duaringa. At the pre-sent day, when visiting Rockhampton - there are still a few surviving - they camp on the south side in the scrub at the base of the Hospital Hill.
Another of the Tarumbal groups, the Rai-wurra, have their home at Yeppoon, where there are just about a score left. In the old days, they used to visit and be visited by the Keppel Islanders, and would also travel west-wise to Woodland, Byfield, Maryval, up along the Peninsula and back again; at the present time, they ocasionally journey to Emu Park and to Rockhampton. Long ago, Yeppoon used to be