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Rh Mr. Hagenauer mentions the following tribes, namely:—


 * 1) Tarrawarracka, inhabiting Port Albert and Tarraville.
 * 2) Wolloom ba Belloom-belloom, on the La Trobe, at Rosedale and at Lake Reeves.
 * 3) Moonoba Ngatpan, on the Rivers Macalister and Thomson.
 * 4) Worreeke ba Koonangyang, on the Elvers Mitchell, Nicholson, and Tambo.
 * 5) Dooveraak ba Daan, on the Elvers Buchan and Snowy.

Mr. Hagenauer says that the rivers and lakes frequented by them were the following:—

The name of the tribe that inhabited the high plains of Omeo was, according to information furnished to the Select Committee of the Legislative Council by the late Mr. Alfred Currie Wills, formerly Police Magistrate and Warden at Omeo, Gundanora. He stated that in May 1835 there were about 500 or 600 men, women, and children resident during a few mouths of each year at their head-quarters on the elevated plain of Omeo. In 1842 they frequently assembled there in large numbers, and often killed many cattle belonging to squatters, whose stockmen, it is said, retaliated by firing on them. Their hunting and fishing grounds extended northward to the Cobboras Hills, southward and eastward to the River Tambo, and westward to the Bogong Range, viâ the Gibbo and Mitta Mitta rivers.

I have not been able to ascertain what tribes commonly frequented the Indi or Limestone River.

The Talangatta Creek, a tributary of the River Mitta Mitta, was, according to Mr. James Wilson, the hunting ground of the Ginning-matong tribe; and Mr. Thomas Mitchell states the Pallanganmiddah held a portion of the lower Kiewa.

Mr. Henry B. Lane, Police Magistrate and Warden, says that the Woradjerg tribe held the country lying between Howlong (twenty miles below Albury)