When an Australian blackfellow wishes to get rid of his wife, he cuts off a lock of her hair in her sleep, ties it to his spear-thrower, and goes with it to a neighbouring tribe, where he gives it to a friend.
In New South Wales for some time after his initiation into the tribal mysteries, a young blackfellow (whose soul at this time is in a critical state) must always cover his mouth with a rug when a woman is present.
When an Australian blackfellow wishes to stay the sun from going down till he gets home, he places a sod in the fork of a tree, exactly facing the setting sun.
He had seen blackfellows who could jump at least three inches higher than anyone else had ever seen a blackfellow jump, and every bushman has seen or personally known a blackfellow who could jump over six feet.
The blacks we saw today appear to be circumcised; three of them approached us, one of whom was the old blackfellow we had seen yesterday.
Fisherman had a conversation with him, but as he said the blackfellow did not know where there were any stations I do not think he understood him.
We saw a fat old white-headed blackfellowand his gin near the waterhole.
On passing up the river, on the left bank, we observed a blackfellow asleep.
Jemmy made flour into a cake and theblackfellow and his companions ate it with avidity.
The elderly blackfellow and one of the others we had seen yesterday paid us a visit, and in the course of the day he brought the others of his party and a man about his own age whom we had not seen before.
The blackfellow who had led them out with such confidence made some significant admissions as they proceeded on the journey.
The blackfellow now, thinking it time to shift for himself, took the way that pleased him best, leaving only the white man, Foster, to assist Stuart in the thick of his difficulties.
During the six months' detention only one blackfellow had been able to put in an appearance, and not till reduced to the last extremity of hunger and thirst.
Of course the blackfellow prefers to have other foods when he can get them.
The blackfellow is, I believe, on the lowest rung of civilization.
Yesterday she bargained with a stray blackfellow to bring her some wood, and while he was at work she went in search of a missing cow.
Now what's the use of arguing that a blackfellow belongs to the human race?
And just at this moment Webster of Kulkaroo came up with the smartest blackfellow in that district.
And did you ever notice that a blackfellowor a half-caste can always clear himself when his horse comes down?
God help us now, if we don't get a blackfellow quick!
The Bulla Bulla Bunyip': "The landlord swore to the apparition of a huge blackfellowflourishing a phantasmal `waddy.
There’s not a blackfellow from here to the coast that can stand before him, they say.
I’m half a blackfellow myself in the way of knowing their language and most of their ways.
But they have paid the price for their sins, and old Tom won’t have time to commit many more—if shooting an oddblackfellow or two doesn’t count.
In the meantime have your guns handy, for you never can tell when a blackfellow will make his dart.
When an Australian blackfellow wishes to stay the sun from going down till he gets home, he puts a sod in the fork of a tree, exactly facing the setting sun.
When a blackfellow wishes to settle old scores with another blackfellow, he ties a rope of fibre or bark so tightly round the neck of his slumbering friend as partially to choke him.
The blackfellow generally wears his hair long, and usually caked into thick matted rope-like coils, with a band of red above the forehead, or else a native dog's tail.
There is a superstition about abstracting the kidney fat of a blackfellow for promoting luck in fishing, and this is said to be done in various ways.
A blackfellow can only marry into one class, namely that opposite to his name, the other three are forbidden to him strictly.
Though differing in name or in totem, the classes and divisions prevail everywhere, and a blackfellow knows at once which of the divisions corresponds to his own in a distant tribe.
Their rags and swag betray dire poverty; their clothes patched in every colour, so that a blackfellow would hardly wear them, and they are dirty in the extreme.
He made a still greater ass of himself at the fence, where the blackfellow messed about a long time over Rigden's marks when we got back there.
The astounding thing is that the blessed blackfellow had spotted that the tracks were not made by the man to whom the boots belonged.
He's like a blackfellow outside of his own 'tauri'.
Father living in the Hollow, like a blackfellow in a cave, afraid to spend the blessed Christmas with his wife and daughter, like the poorest man in the land could do if he was only honest.
After we'd passed Dandaloo, and well inside the West Bogan scrubs, he picked up a blackfellow that had once been a tracker; gave him a pound to let them know at the police camp that you were making out by Willaroon.
She had not seen any like the acting Blackfellow at her cottage home.
I do not believe in spurning the love of a blackfellow if he behaves in a manly way; but Frank Hawden was such a drivelling mawkish style of sweetheart that I had no patience with him.
My Blackfellow quitted me on the range, as he had done before, on several similar occasions; and it was too evident that I could not rely upon him in times of difficulty and danger.
A Blackfellow emerged suddenly from the creek, holding a Casuarina branch in his hand, and pointing to the westward.
But in conversation with Brown as to the possibility of one of the emus having escaped, he said very seriously: "Blackfellow knows better than white fellow; he never leaves the emu without breaking a wing.
They had heard the cooce of my blackfellow Charley, and thought Mr. Gilbert wanted them; but, as he was alone, he thought it prudent to retire to the camp.
I never saw such a rum river, in my life," said my blackfellow Charley.
Only got 'em one yarramen," said the blackfellow nonchalantly.
A blackfellow has hit the woman over the head with a big stick or club.
But the usually drunken blackfellowand his invariably degenerate gin were already becoming scarce in their own land.
I've heard a blackfellowtalk like that, but not a white man, and may I never hear the like again!
He said he had hopes of finding Dunn, he being a man that "knew blackfellow well, and used to go along blackfellow.
The blackfellow of Australia seemed to partake largely of the country he lived in.
About half a mile further we came close on a blackfellow who was coiling by a camp fire, whilst his gin and piccaninny were yabbering alongside.
One night a blackfellowwalked deliberately up to the fire round which the party were assembled, having seemingly mistaken it for his own.
I told himblackfellow always die when he got spear in there (the back).
The blackfellow then described minutely the different waters passed by Burke, and the way the men lived on the seeds of the nardoo plant, which he must have heard of from other natives.
Mr Roper and Charley, out in search of water, fell in with a Blackfellow and his gin or squaw.
As Mr Roper moved round the base of the tree, in order to look the Blackfellow in the face, and to speak with him, the latter studiously avoided looking at Mr Roper, by shifting round and round the trunk like an iguana.
Undoubtedly I made myself attractive to the blackfellow mind; for, besides having proved an unexpected entertainment, I had made every one feel mightily superior to the missus.
So, pointing to them, he asked what was in the fire, and the blackfellow replied with one word "lubra.
The track led him past a grove of dense ti-tree, on the land now known as the Brewery Paddock, and about a hundred yards ahead a single blackfellow came out of the grove, and began capering about and waving a waddy.
The blackfellow asked for a fig of tobacco, and, after filling his pipe, the stockman gave him the remainder of the fig he had been cutting, and held out his hand for the firestick.
He said: "Another one blackfellowkilled him, baal me shoot him.
After the bleeding had been stanched and the wounds bandaged, the stranger related that as he was riding he met a blackfellow carrying a fire-stick.
Two at a time they repeated their story, how they saw the blackfellow coming, how they bolted the door, and how he battered it with his club, threatening to kill them if they did not open it.
He had a pair of pistols in the holsters of his saddle, but he did not draw them: there was no danger from a blackfellow a hundred yards off.
Soon after he arrived at Colac he saw there a solitary blackfellow crouching before a fire in which bones were visible.
In the pursuit the blackfellow with us was thrown from his horse; the horse followed and came up with us just as we pulled the frightened fellow up.
Two of the working bullocks got off during my absence, and before they were overtaken by the blackfellow (Frank) on horseback, they had got down south as far as Lake Hope; so he reported on arrival.
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