are laid on the trail of the tribe; then follow the careful tracking, the surprise, the shooting at a distance safe from spears, the deaths of many of the males, the capture of the women, who know that if they abstain from flight they will be spared; the gratified lust of the savage, and the Sub-inspector's report that the tribe has been "dispersed," for such is the official term used to convey the occurrence of these proceedings. When the tribe has gone through several repetitions of this experience, and the chief part of its young men been butchered, the women, the remnant of the men, and such children as the Black troopers have not troubled themselves to shoot, are let in, or allowed to come to the settler's homestead, and the war is at an end. Alternative names Koombokkaburra Munkibura Oncooburra Pegulloburra Wokkelburra Wokkulburra ( from their word, wak:ul, for 'eel'). Source: Some words knagana ('forbidden', the word for the law banning the consumption of certain foods for certain classes of people) knurra (wild dog) meearew (whiteman) waddey/yabboo (father) wandi (tame dog) yanga (mother) Notes Citations Sources Aboriginal peoples of Queensland