The Wurango's tribal lands encompassed about 500 square miles (1,300 km2) around the western end of the Cobourg Peninsula including Port Essington.[1]
People
Crawford Pasco described the Wurango as he found them in 1838 as numerous, and of very good health since many reached the venerable age of 70.[2]
Social organisation
Norman Tindale speculated that mentions of the Tji and Jalo in this area clearly referring to the Wurango probably denoted hordes. If so, then he classified their respective localities as follows:
Tji, a Wurango horde located at the western end of the Peninsula.
^G.Windsor Earl, writes of Manjarojalli, Manjarwüli, and Mambulgit, mistaking these to be castes. He added however that Manjarojalli comes from ojelli (fire) meaning that this skin section sprang from fire; that Manjarwüli came from the land, while Mambulgit, though obscure, referred to net-weavers. (Earl 1846, pp. 240–241)
^Limba Karadjee was the name assigned to the Port Essington tribe by E.M.Curr's informant, Crawford Pasco (Pasco 1886, p. 268)
Pasco, Crawford (1886). "Port Essington"(PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Vol. 1. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 268–269.
