OLD KING PREDICTED HIS DEATH

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 121, 9 February 1940, Page 3

OLD KING PREDICTED HIS DEATH

When King Jaringoorli of the Wol min Yowaroo tribe / took a pannikin of tea from his woman he calmly announced it would be the last he would take with her. After drinking, he settled back on his pillows and died. At an early hour officials of the native hospital knew, by the outbreak of weird wailing in the native camp, that "Punch" had died. The old fellow was a line type. About 90 years old, he stood tall and erect, weighing about 16 stone, with silvery hair and whiskers and a thunderous voice. His tribe were the original inhabitants of the north-east shores of Roebuck Bay (on which Broome stands) and owners of the prolific Mungalagoon fishing grounds. Jaringooli outlived, by several years, the rival king of the adjacent Minyer Yowaroo tribe, which first inhabited tlie promontory on which Broome township stands. Rough Surgery. His faculties were perfect, and many Avere the talcs he could tell of the first invasion by the white man and his pearling .boats. He had two scars high up on the inner side of each thigh, made bj r a shark when he was diving for shell in his youth. After the attack he was hauled on deck and sewn up by his employers with ordinary needle and thread. He was educated at Beagle Bay Mission, and then he returned to Broome and gained the respect of the whites.