black-fellow

Even the Australian black-fellow is, perhaps, not quite so entirely eligible for extinction as a good, wholesome, horse-racing, sheep-farming Australian white may think.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

Suddenly there fell a shadow across the threshold, and a big black-fellow entered -- a stranger whom Sinkum

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

He had given ten times the value of those things, and thus only had he saved them from the black-fellow.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

"Mother," Eustace said, as soon as the man's footsteps died away round the veranda, "did you believe his story about the black-fellow?"

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

To have killed a man -- a white fellow, black-fellow, any sort of fellow; it was horrible!

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

His instinct for locality was as the instinct of some wild animal, or of an Australian black-fellow.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

In search of them, the black-fellow will ascend a tree in the manner just described; and there he will sit while his companions below dig under the roots, and light a fire, the smoke from which ascending the trunk of the tree, as a chimney, speedily dislodges the game.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

Had he but known that missee wanted the black-fellow too, he would have given his greatest treasure -- his fine long pig-tail -- to have detained him.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

The "black-fellow" cuts a small notch about three feet from the ground; in this, he inserts the toe of one foot, holding on by one hand while he cuts another hole three feet further up to receive the other foot; and thus he proceeds till he reaches the top.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

It presented to Eustace's mind a vivid picture -- the black-fellow with poised boomerang standing over the shrinking Chinkee, threatening his life if he did not obey the exorbitant demands.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield