Kurtijar peoples, Norman River

Source: E. M. Curr's book The Australian Race (1889). William Armit informed Curr 'The country of the Karrandee tribe is on the Gulf of Carpentaria, commencing at the mouth of the River Bynoe, and continuing along the coast, after passing the embouchure of the Norman, to a salt-water creek within fifteen miles of the mouth of the Gilbert: inland it extends to Magowra Station, and on to Walkers Creek, and contains about two thousand square miles. This country, or a part of it, was first occupied by the Whites in about 1866. In 1875, when my informant first knew the tribe, it numbered some 250 persons, but is now reduced by the rifle and syphilis to 160 souls, made up of 50 men, 70 women, and 40 children. Women rarely being shot, it seems from these figures that 90 men of this tribe fell before the rifle.