cooeys

Before resuming his journey, he gave two or three vociferous "cooeys," but without hearing any answering sound, save the echo of his own voice.

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

"And perhaps the Malays may find it," he argued; so tying his handkerchief over his head with a great leaf inside, he trudged on, answering the "cooeys" from time to time, till he drew nearer, and at last, in obedience to a whistle, joined his uncle about the same time as

The Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn 1870

Our "cooeys" were answered by voices not far distant; and following the sound, we soon came within view of

The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844

It was swelled by the roars, and cooeys, and curses of every man above ground and below, in the shafts and drives on the flats, and in the tunnels of the White Hills, from Golden Gully and Sheep's Head, to Job's Gully and Eaglehawk, until the warning that "Joey's out" had reached to the utmost bounds of the goldfield.

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862

It was noon before the girls heard the cooeys uttered by the searching-party, which proved that the children had not yet been discovered.

The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The savages must have heard us, as well as the cooeys in the distance; for after vainly hurling another shower of spears, they turned and scampered off as fast as their legs could carry them, their flight hastened by the peppering we gave their backs with small shot.

Adventures in Australia William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

During the nights passed at this camp the natives were on the alert, so that their various movements, cooeys, and calls kept the party in a state of watchfulness, aware, as experience had taught us, of their thieving propensities.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

a mile from an encampment approach has to be heralded by loud _cooeys_;

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926