"Nyinyilki is a freshwater spring south-east of Bentinck Island where our Father is from. This is now the mainbase." "My country is behind Ninyilki, this is where I was born on a saltpan
under the ti-trees. You can see Sweers Island from here. My father,
King Alfred, was dragging grass across the sea with his other wives, to
catch fish. He didn't know I was coming. It was my aunty who ran to let
my father know. My grandmother delivered me, she was the one that cut
my chord with a special shell. They thought I would be a boy because I
was so big in my mother's tummy. My father put me in a coolaman and
carried me all the way to Oak Tree Point, a better place to camp. It was
a long way to walk all that way carrying me."