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Meroe [red writing]
District
List of Aborigines names of places & their meanings - Meroe Station [red writing underlined]
Billambora - Hard level ground
Bullindoon A species of white bird
Boolooroo A reed
Boorooloo A fly
Booryadool A short fellow
Boggabri (correct word Boorgaburrie) An emu and [with crossed out] young ones
Bunna Bunna very fleshy
Bundah A Kangaroo
Burrin A Boomerang
Bryanunga Go quickly
Bulliranna A clump of belah trees
Burrilda A coolamon or wooden vessel for carrying water in cut
from a large knot on a tree.
Colliemongli wide waters
Colliebidgelah a mark near water
Curragandi a track going away
Carroll a forked tree
Combadillo A coolamon, or piece of bark tied at each end
& used as a vessel for keeping warer in.
Derra The place where a creek branches from a river
Goonal An old camping ground
Gurley (correct word Goorilee) a species of tree
Keytah Little black ants
Meroe A large sheet of bark - A camping ground where huts were made of sheets of bark.
Mungyer scratch yourself
Mallawa Flat country
Millie White clay
Myamblar Two waterholes
Talmoi We will eat
Tyreel A reed
Wirrah A hanging tree
Wirralah A scrub turkey
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