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a meeting place of the Torilla, Rockhampton, Yaamba, and Mt. Hedlow natives. In connection with the Mt. Hedlow ones it is of interest to note that the last survivor "Old Charlie" was buried 30th June 1897, a few weeks before my visit, at a spot about twenty yards from Mt. Bosomworth's [?] on the Greenlake Road (i.e. the branch-off from Wyatt's on the main Rockhampton-Yeppoon road.
7. At Yaamba is a small camp consisting in the main of old and diseased individuals of mixed origin, though the Bichal-burra Group fo the Warrabal Tribe constitute the local one; none of them however could speak or under-stand English sufficiently well to allow of my collecting a reliable vocabulary. On the Yaamba-Marlborough Road in Smith's Paddock at the 4-Mile Creek (ie. 4 four miles south of Princhester) is a camp of 3 three old males and 1 one female, remnants of the Mu-in-burra Group of the Ku-in-murr-burra Tribe. This tribe owned the coast-country encompassing Torilla, Banksia, Tulpal, Raspberry Creek and Pine Mountain; Torilla was the main camp or home where the blacks would travel down the coast to Emu Park, and inland to Yaamba and Rockhampton. At Marlborough I met some Bauwi-wurra natives, some 18 or 20 of whom are still living: their chief camp is at Apis [?] Creek, the other side of the range, their "wal-about" including Marlborough, Stoodleigh, Princhester, Leura, Waverley, Willanji, Tooloombah, and Broadround [?], i.e. St. Lawrence where they exchange courtesies with the visiting Mackay Blacks, a fact which accounted for my coming across two Mackay-made boomerangs in the Marlborough camp.
8 Turning attention now to the southern portions of this Rockhampton and Central Coast District there are the Gladstone and Miriam Vale, as well as the Island Blacks to consider. At Gladstone, I visited the native camp situate at Police Creek about three 3