Name of Tribe and Locality. | Language.
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8. | Nira-baluk [1] Kilmore. |
Thagunworung. |
9. | Jajaurung From Daylesford to Boort and Castlemaine to Lake Buloke. |
Jajaurung. |
10. | Buthera-baluk Goulburn River, Seymour. |
Thagunworung. |
11. | Nguralung-bula Goulburn River, Murchison. |
? |
12. | Yauung-illam-baluk Alexandra Upper Yea River. |
Thagunworung. |
13. | Waring-illam-baluk Junction of Yea River and Goulburn. |
Thagunworung. |
14. | Yirun-illam-baluk Broken River above and below Benalla. |
Thagunworung. |
15. | Balung-karak-mittung Ovens River, Wangaratta. |
? |
16. | Mogullum-bitch Buffalo River. |
? |
The Wurunjerri-baluk (also called the Woëworung from their language) gave the following as the boundaries of their country.
From the junction of the Saltwater and the Yarra Rivers, along the course of the former to Mount Macedon,[2] thence to Mount Baw-Baw, along the Dividing Range, round the sources of the Plenty and Yarra to the Dandenong Mountains, thence by Gardiner's Creek and the Yarra to the starting-point.
It may be mentioned that a strip of country from the mouth of the Werribee River, and including what is now Williamstown and the southern suburbs of Melbourne, belonged to the Bunurong, a coast tribe, which occupied the coast line from there round Hobson's Bay to Mordialloc, the whole of the Mornington Peninsula, and the coast from Westernport Bay to Anderson's Inlet.
At the time when Melbourne was established, the Wurunjerri were divided into the following clans:—
1. The true Wurunjerri, under the headman, Jakka-jakka,[3]