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[Left margin note]
Ngarego

The boundaries of the country of the Ngarego appear to have
included the whole of the Maneroo plains and also the country
beyond the Snowy River as far as the boundary of the Omeo
tribe. Their neighbours in the [Western - crossed out] South west were the Kurnai
by whom they were much dreaded and whom they called “Brajerak”(1)
or ‘Wild men’ [To the - crossed out] South over the coast range and between it, the Lower Snowy River
and the sea, that is the present County of Croagingoling their neighbours
were a wild jungle tribe, few in number, the Bidwell-mitung, the last
of whome only “came in” and became civilized somewhere about 1870.
In the south East are the Coast Murring and to the East were
tribes of the group to which the Braidwood tribe belonged.
Their northern neighbours were the Wolgal.

[Left margin note]
(1) Bra - male or man
yirak or jirak -
anger, thus
yirakal loän =
an angry white man

The class system of the Ngarego/Ngarigo was as follows:-

[Table of two columns]

Classes	Totems
Merŭng	Belleb - Lyrebird
Eaglehawk	Nadjabajan - Bat
	[Būlemba] - Flying squirrel
	Mundarŭng - Tuan
	Namŭng - Black snake
	Mŭlan or Mŭnja - a fish
	Bŭt-[ttie?]-wark - Mopoke
	Kau-ŭnga - Black opossum
	[Wa-at?] - Red wallaby
Yŭk-em-brŭk	Bra-a-gar - Small hawk
crow	Tehuteba - Rabbit rat
	Bowa - Flying squirrel next in size to Bulemba [above]
	Bŭr-rū - Kangaroo
	Beri-bong - Emu
	Bŭdalūk - Lace lizard
	Kūa-i-ūr - Native [Companion?]
	Kau-au - Porcupine
	Ū-lūn-bau - Sleeping lizard

[Line under table]

The law of marriage was that Merūng married Yŭk-em-brŭk
and vice versa as to the totems.

[Left margin note] Wolgal

To the north of the Ngarejo was the Wolgal tribe whose country according
an old man who belonged to it and who came from the Hume River
somewhere between Tom Groggin and Cudjewa. The fixed the boundaries
approximately as follows. Junction of the Walarigari River and the River Murray;
- Tumberumba - Adelong - Tumut - Gundagai - Lambing Flat - Yass - Queanbeyan -
Cooma - Kiandra - [Gibs? Hole - Thelbingun Mt - and thence across the Indi River
near Tom Groggin.