bad

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
weree weree
English JS Main: 
bad
English: 
As Governor Phillip advanced towards the man whose fears he wished to remove, he took up the spear in question, and fixing it in a throwing-stick, appeared to stand on his defence; but as there was no reason to suppose he would throw it without the least provocation, and when he was so near those with whom our party were on such friendly terms, the governor made a sign for him to lay it down, and continued to approach him, at the same time repeating the wordsÑweree weree, which the natives use when they wish any thing not to be done that displeases them.
Category: 
abstract
Source: 
Phillip in Hunter
Page: 
308
Line: 
4
Respelt: 
wiri wiri
Part of speech: 
noun adjective
Date: 
1792
Meaning Clue: 
"weree weree" wiri wiri = "bad" bad : Phillip in Hunter [:308:4] [BB]
Source Details: 
The Journal of Governor Arthur Phillip from 3 June 1790 to 17 December 1791 (pp. 299-375) in AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF EVENTS AT SYDNEY AND AT SEA 1787-1792 by Captain John Hunter, Commander H.M.S. Sirius with further accounts by Governor Arthur Phillip, Lieutenant P. G. King, and Lieutenant H. L. Ball (originally published 1793), edited by John Bach, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle. Published by Angus and Robertson, 89 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, in Association with the Royal Australian Historical Society. This edition published in 1968. Copyright. National Library of Australia Registry Number AUS 67-2147 Printed in Australia by Halstead Press, Sydney. xxxv + 452 pages. ------------------ This edition was scanned, read by optical character recognition and formatted, and dates and subject headings added, by Jeremy Steele in April 2004, for his private use. There is a copy of Hunter’s Journal in the Rare Books Library, Fisher Library. It does not entirely match this 1968 edition. ---------------------- Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean , since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792. By Iohn Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy . Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London. Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.