The day after the retrograde movement of the cattle to Ruined Castle Creek, and just as Dr Leichhardt was about to start on a reconnoissance, the Blackfellows came down to where the horses were grazing, and speared one of them in the shoulder.
At least we are informed that something of this sort is done by Australian blackfellows at the present day, and if so, why should it not have been done by Arabs in the time of Mohammed?
Similarly, when the Israelites marched forth to war they were bound by certain rules of ceremonial purity identical with rules observed by Maoris and Australian blackfellows on the war-path.
Davy took a long and steady look, and said: "I am blowed if they ain't blackfellows in their canoes.
The blackfellows had shipped the whole crop in their canoes, so that there was nothing but rabbit for breakfast.
Then she rounded up the blackfellows like a mob of cattle and started them.
The blackfellows were there, too--what was left of them.
Lachlan Macalister had had a long experience in dealing with blackfellows and bushrangers; he had been a captain in the army, and an officer of the border police.
She conquered all the blackfellows around her land with her own right arm.
Some blackfellows had been poisoned there by a settler who wanted to get rid of them.
He had an idea that it was very difficult to kill blackfellows outright, that theywere like American 'possums, and were apt to come to life again after they had been killed, and ought to be dead.
Blackfellows had left me, as usual; my horse was foot-sore, and neither the poor animal nor myself had tasted water for the last thirty-six hours.
The Blackfellows will doubtless wonder why so many noble trees had been felled here.
It was a day well calculated to impress on the Blackfellows the difference between riding and walking, between finding a meal ready after a fatiguing journey, and looking out for food for themselves.
The two Blackfellows and myself spread out each our own under the canopy of heaven, whilst Messrs.
This event, fortunately not a very disastrous one, was so far useful, as it impressed every one with the necessity of being watchful, even when the Blackfellows were not suspected to be near.
The Blackfellows told us, that they had caught a ring-tailed opossum, and had seen a black kangaroo with a white point at the end of the tail.
Charley saw two Blackfellows retreating into the scrub, but had seen a great number of them when he first came to the place.
But the clouds had left the moon clear for a while, so that the Blackfellows and the dogs easily followed every movement, as they pursued the hunt on a smoother level below.
For a few seconds it hesitated to make the attack, and looked back down the slope, to see if the other dogs were coming to help; but they were only just beginning the ascent, and the shouting Blackfellows were further off still.
Dick wondered what exactly the blackfellows had done to the woman--and there was the blood-curdling shriek again!
That's what we all thought; but Bungarolo and the others are sure that there have been no blackfellows in the neighbourhood.
Because you've got to talk to them blackfellows so's they can understand you, sir.
They say that when the first people met the blackfellows they asked them what they called the leaping creatures they saw hopping along so far on two legs, like animal grasshoppers; and the blacks said `Kangaroo.
In the result, there was very little to know; for when the three blackfellowscame back that night, they could only tell that there had been a long hunt for the convict.
The blackfellows mounted on the roof, tried to take off the bark, and throw their spears into the hut, but here they were foiled again.
All day the blackfellows were prowling about, and getting more and more insolent, and at night, just as Murtagh shut the door, they raised their yell, and rushed against it.
The blackfellows of Australia and certain North American Indian tribes possess societies and celebrations almost identical with that of Eleusis, but why they should be wrapped in such mystery it is difficult to understand.
Then I pulled out my gun and fired, and hit one fellow all over the face with buckshot; he tumbled down, and got up again and again and wheeled right round, and two blackfellows picked him up and carried him away.
Then a good many blackfellows came behind in the scrub, and threw plenty of spears, and hit Mr. Kennedy in the back first.
Well, he bought all the land hereabouts—a few millions of acres—from blackfellows who called themselves chiefs.
Then a good many blackfellows came behind in the scrub and threw plenty of spears, and hit Mr. Kennedy in the back first.
Unfortunately, this animal carried a lot of their most necessary articles, and their loss reduced them almost to the same state as the blackfellows who surrounded them.
It was a moonlight night, and I walked up to Mr. Kennedy and said, 'There is plenty of blackfellows now.
In some of the inland lakes and permanent lagoons they are so fat as to be almost uneatable, and at times so plentiful and easily caught that the blackfellows scarcely trouble to get them, which is rarely the case elsewhere.
Started the blackfellows and whites to dig a well close by the depot before I went away this morning.
The alarm would be given as soon as the horse was led out from the stable, and the blackfellows would have time to gather at any point.
Some of the natives who have been here must have noticed you drawing water, and have told other blackfellows of the water running out from the side of a wall whenever you wanted it.
Meanwhile theblackfellows had prepared a meal of roast opossum.
The blackfellows grinned, and led the three a short distance to a place where a large hollow had been scooped in the sandy floor of the desert.
We've got a long journey before us, but these blackfellows will know how to procure food for us.
In the same district Sir George Grey noticed among the blackfellows people he describes as "almost white.
This Indo-Aryan origin for the Australian blackfellows is borne out by their physique.
Messrs Spencer and Gillen appear to think that such rudimentary idea of an All-Father as has, it is thought, been detected among the blackfellows is an exotic growth fostered by contact with missionaries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackfellows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
