Cobba-cobbaDay to day life at an Aboriginal depot Nor-west of Western Australia. |
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Page 132
... seemed to be several natives leaning over the fence to watch him wander about the garden or swim and dive in the water drums . Dorothy and the Boys spent hours catching tadpoles for him , but droughts are not the best time for frogs ...
... seemed to be several natives leaning over the fence to watch him wander about the garden or swim and dive in the water drums . Dorothy and the Boys spent hours catching tadpoles for him , but droughts are not the best time for frogs ...
Page 149
... seemed rather hard on the patients . As a matter of fact , she seemed always to be leaving the kitchen with completely inadequate rations , and when the cook , at her own expense , several times bought tinned beans and spaghetti so as ...
... seemed rather hard on the patients . As a matter of fact , she seemed always to be leaving the kitchen with completely inadequate rations , and when the cook , at her own expense , several times bought tinned beans and spaghetti so as ...
Page 193
... seemed likely to remain so for a long time to come . A few weeks after I had voluntarily begun this " school- time , " a letter arrived from Head Office saying that , since my job was " only part - time , " the Commissioner felt that I ...
... seemed likely to remain so for a long time to come . A few weeks after I had voluntarily begun this " school- time , " a letter arrived from Head Office saying that , since my job was " only part - time , " the Commissioner felt that I ...
Contents
ACCOMMODATION PROVIDED Page | 11 |
THE TWO CAMPS | 26 |
GOATS GATES AND GARDENS | 44 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
aboriginal afternoon all-a-same arrived asked baby billabong billycans Bin-Bin birds Blackfulla Law boomerangs Boss Boys Breami Broome Bulga bush busy clean Cobba-Cobba Cockatoo cockroaches Depot devil-devil Digbar Dora Dorothy Dorothy's dress eyes False Cape Fanny feel fire fish fulla garden girls goats gollywogs Grange camp head Henry housegirls Jumbo kangaroo kitchen kookaburras Kweeston LA GRANGE BAY later laughing leave legs Lissa look mangroves meat Mick might-be milk Missus morning natives Nellie never night no-one Noora-Noora Nor'-West Norman Tindale penicillin perhaps plenty Post Office realised red-back spiders Richard ROEBUCK BAY round sand seemed soon sort Station sticks suddenly Surgery surgery-time teeth tell Thangoo things Tindale tins told took trees truck Udialla camp veranda wailing wait walk wash weeks weevils whitefulla women wonder worried young
References to this book
Australian Aboriginal Contact with the English Language in New South Wales ... Jakelin Troy No preview available - 1990 |
Australian Aboriginal Contact with the English Language in New South Wales ... Jakelin Troy No preview available - 1990 |