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the course of their travels southwards, there Koko-warra come into communication with the Koko-minni from the Middle Palmer River. The Koko-lamalama have their main camp in the vicinity of the mouth of the Bizant River and Jeannette's Tableland; primarily, they are thus coastal blacks, though of late years they have commenced to wander along the tracks of, but not quite to such lengths as, their souther Koko-warra neighbours. In days gone by, the Koko-olkulo[?] had their "home" at the water-holes in the neighbourhood of what is now the Musgrave Native Police Camp. At the present time (1899), they "walk-about" along the higher portions of Salt-water River, and across to the upper reaches of the Ham and Morehead Rivers, where in a northerly direction they wander up to Port Stewart, etc. The Koko-narmul, the last of the more important of the Princess Charlotte Bay Tribes are somewhat limited in their peregrinations along Salwater and Morehead River. The following are some of the local place-names in the Koko-warra language:
Balker's Knob [-] lú-imba
Bathurst Head and Flinders Group [-] arÃing-u
Barrow Point [-] apóllin
Breega Station [-] ráu-o
Cape Melville [-] tu-a, yaln-ga, vel irán-bai
Country at Back of Bowen Bay [-] ar-wú
Eastern Half of Pr. Charl. Bay Coast [-] lamalama
Country to west of Saltwater River [-] ólkulo ve €‹l wólkulo
Jeannette's Tableland [-] gái-wara
Lakefield Station [-] gó-ra
Musgrave [Station] [-] par-ján-ja
[Musgrave Station] (18-mile Camp) [-] arnáu-o
North Island [-] mor-kon-den
Wile the tracts of country through which the folloing rivers run are named thus: -
Saltwater River [-] ngorpal
Morehead River [-] nar-mul
Hamm R. and Station Creek [-] ngum-bu-ar
Koolburra Creek [-] ne-már-o
Bizant River [-] urr-thurr-wa
Jack River [-] te-ra
Normanby River [-] win-járko, Kar-win
North Kennedy River [-] nar-nu
South " [Kennedy River] [-] tombu-kúmana
Laura River [-] nár-tal
Deighton River [-] Kar-múka
Jeannie River [-] albún, yorl-bun
Staneke River [-] Kún-jar, dún-jo