. Opals and agates : or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans : being memoirs of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia : with nine illustrations. naroy ; and, for curlyhair, brilliant black eyes, and pure white teeth, it were hard to beatthem. It is the habit here to give each native an alias (not unlike our-old English Saxon fashion, of Fitz, Hurst, and Combe, tfcc, or the11 Mac of Scotland, or the O of Ireland), by putting the affix ipo to the name of the place where they were born. Bessiewas born at Bouripa, so was called Bouriparipo, and Louey,Lymebennaripo. I happened one ev
. Opals and agates : or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans : being memoirs of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia : with nine illustrations. naroy ; and, for curlyhair, brilliant black eyes, and pure white teeth, it were hard to beatthem. It is the habit here to give each native an alias (not unlike our-old English Saxon fashion, of Fitz, Hurst, and Combe, tfcc, or the11 Mac of Scotland, or the O of Ireland), by putting the affix ipo to the name of the place where they were born. Bessiewas born at Bouripa, so was called Bouriparipo, and Louey,Lymebennaripo. I happened one evening, after tea, to say to thesuperintendent that they were pretty girls, and my expression musthave been quoted to the sable Laocoon, for, soon after, I had a callfrom him, and an offer of the two of them for my wives ; but, a birdof passage, such as I was, could not close with the flattering over-ture, pretty and innocent as the gills then were. One girl, of 20,named Maria, and the wife of Martin, an eagle-eyed black, who wasthe supers aide de camp in the field, and who, some blacksaverred, could see a bullet in its flight, wore the cotton dress of a. N CO ?fc. << <C/3 w .-JW DP 55 O §in NATIVE NAMES. 65 white woman, and stockings and shoes on her small feet, and rodehorses astraddle, as coloured women, alike in Australia and Poly-nesia, do. Some of the native names and phrases are very pretty. Lycullin signifies a camp, or resting place ; tenarpogee is a black swan; toombarngee is a sheep ; cullingharly is a knife ; mingakiene means fetch water ; and minna wenarpe means bringfire; koondarley means gammon, rubbish, stuif and nonsense,the same as ean-ang-hela means it on the Barwon, far away tothe north-east, and is a favorite female reply to ardent, and jocular,professions of love. Snakes are very plentiful in this Murrumbidgee country, andcome down from the dry, burning plains, to drink at the edge of theflooded ground. Often have I, armed with a mallee sapling, m
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