 The last survivor of the Wulgurukaba band resident on Great Palm Island died in 1962.The primordial creative serpent of the Manbarra dreamtime legends, a carpet snake named "Gubbal", is said to have slithered down the Herbert River, and, swimming across the sea, to have disintegrated, leaving pieces of his back as Palm Island and his head as Magnetic Island.Tambo ("Kukamunburra"), a Manbarra man was shipped by the showman R. A. Cunningham to the United States in 1883, in response to a call by P.T.