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THE TRIBAL ORGANISATION
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Name of Tribe and Locality. Language.


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]

  1. Nira is a "cave or a hole in the bank of a creek."
  2. The native name of this mountain is Juraweit.
  3. Jakka-jakka was one of those who signed the celebrated Batman deed by "his mark." To my ear, the name should be pronounced as written above.