dilly-bag

They knew, too, that from the bark band across his forehead was slung a dilly-bag big enough to hold a captured piccaninny for breakfast, if the sleepy Too-gan failed to waver within range of his spear.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

More than one quaking individual saw the lop-sided head, the appalling mouth, the huge dilly-bag dancing from shoulder to shoulder.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Thus spoke the pleasant-faced gin who passed with the dilly-bag along a narrow aisle of the jungle, intent upon ridding herself of

Tropic Days 2003

Billy Too-gal, and that when he appeared her father should spear him, and then kill him alonga head with a tomahawk — “dead finis” — and take his dilly-bag and long fishing-line for his own.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

In three or four hours they are taken out and planed, a dilly-bag

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The coarse meal was put into a dilly-bag and placed in running water below a slight fall, from the lip of which fluming, improvised from the leaf of native ginger, conducted a gentle stream.

Tropic Days 2003

Soon after dark on the second night she took to the bush, carrying a dilly-bag and a blanket.

Tropic Days 2003

So the black boy with a careless flourish fills his dilly-bag, while he smiles at the serious attempts of the white man to imitate his skill.

Tropic Days 2003

On the fire was a foot with charred ankle-bones; in a dilly-bag other fragments, but in

Tropic Days 2003

German sausage-shaped damper; she will be able to walk about the reef, picking up blacklip oysters and clams, without lacerating the soles of her feet, and to make a dilly-bag, and, finally, to enjoy

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003