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camp at the 3-mile (worra-jaga). North of Cooktown. Cape Bedford is where the natives speak the Koko-gimidir? language in its full purity. 18 The Starcke R. Natives travel to the McDuor R., to Cape Bedford, and to Cooktown where they camp at the 2-mile. Among their place-names (there blacks speak Koko-gimidir) on the McDuor are the following - Gorton’s Selection, parra; Thygeson’s, Karm-bar; Bramigham’s no-kal; Webb’s, winbar-winbar etc. They speak of Barrow Point as Mo-yir; Look-out Point Tanyil; Cape Flattery, Yorro, and the country through which the Morgan and Jennie Rivers run as Walmbar and Yorl-bun respectively. More or less West of Cooktown is the Boggy Creek Reserve, for Aboriginals, a stretch of country on Butchers Hill station (Yung-Kur). These Yung-Kurara used in the old days to have a peregrination including the head of the Daintree River, the Bloomfield River, the Windsor (Kalmbard?), and sometimes to the Laura River and Maytown at present however (1899) there are some party feuds on, and the travelling is very limited. At Maytown (Wulbur-jurbur) they visit the Wulbur-ana who wander between that township, Laura and Palmerville and speak Koko-minni. They have apparently always been, and still are, at emnity? with the Deighton Blacks who speak Koko-warra.
In the Princes Charlotte Bay District, the main original camp or of the Koko-Warra, ie., where most of the higher initiation ceremonies usually take place in its close vicinity to Baker’s Knob. They follow the Normandy and Deighton as far as the Laura Settlement; they travel up Statim and Sandy Creeks to the Morehead River, and westwards they wander over Jeanette’s? Tableland.