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some 3 or 4 remnants from gin -ga-ji, Baileys Creek, some four miles south, and about the same number from tchool-gooz, the present Toolgoor selection fo Cochrane’s some little distance north of the Bloomfield. These blacks are the best workers, the most civilised, the best turtle-fishers, and yet the weakest throughout the district, and consequently, often made the scapegoats to account for the deaths of any of the most important members of the neighbouring tribes (sect. 4). From their chief camp at the mouth, they travel along the river which is known locally as banna-yi-ri (= water-falls) as far as the heads; southwards, they go as far as Baileys Creek. In former times, their walkabout included the northern coast along Cedar Bay to Archer Point, a distance abuot midway between the Bloomfield River and Cooktown: nowadays, they very rarely come north of the river.
They speak Ko-Ko-buld-ja.
Wyalla , locally wi-al-al, is regarded as a head camp. It includes the blacks from Koo-na (= Mr Finnegan or Finlayson_, woo-loo-moo-pan (= a spot north of Bauer’s Gap), wol-pa (=the big range lying westwards of Mt Romso), and yalm -ba (= district between Wyalla north-eastwards and the sea). They speak Ko-Ko-yal-an-ji.
Mission Station & Cuunamurra (Bairdi selection). The Aboriginals to be ? with here are those hailing from wood-jil wood-jil (Mission Station), bor-roo (Cunnamurra), noo -roo (country at head of Granite Creek, the northern branch of the Bloomfield River), moo (district between nooroo and the Bloomfield), bool- pan (country between the Springs i.e. Cook’ s selection, and noo-roo), moo -loo-jin (west of Baird’s, whence they travel to Marseba), gan-goo (along Eastern branch of the Daintree River).
They all speak Kokobuldja, like the Bannabillara