Gudang/Djagaraga
While they do not appear on the AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia as a separate entity, in Norman Tindale's Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, the Gudang (alternatively Djagaraga, Dyagaraga, Yagulle, Alauian (horde), Unduamo (horde), Undooyamo, Kekosino (horde at Escape River), Kekoseno, Kokiliga (? horde name), Somerset tribe) occupied around 500 square kilometres on the east coast from Cliff Head (north of Newcastle Bay) to Cape York, including the Mount Adolphus Islands and Albany Island and extending south to the Escape River and Fly Point on the Peninsula's eastern coast.
They spoke an extinct Northern Paman language, had very close trade, religious and ritual links with the Kaurareg in the western Torres Strait Islands and the Unduyamo on the Cape's east coast, and were divided into at least four hordes:
Gudang/Alauian (at Cape York)
Unduamo
Kekosino (around the Escape River)
Kokiliga
Their numbers diminished so rapidly after the settlement of Somerset was established on their lands in 1863 that their language was effectively extinct within one generation. That may have been entirely due to the new settlement: Dr John Mildred Creed, the medical officer on the South Australian government's 1867 Northern Territory expedition under Captain Francis Cadell, noted that their southern neighbours — the Yadhaigana — had almost exterminated the Gudang within living memory.
