leatherjacket
Language:
Australian:
Boladeree
English JS Main:
leatherjacket
English:
Neither of the men had suffered the extraction of a front tooth. We were eager to know whether or not, this custom obtained among them. But neither Colbee, nor Boladeree, would put the question for us; and on the contrary, shewed every desire to wave the subject.
Category:
name of person
Source:
Tench
Page:
230
Line:
25
Respelt:
Båla-dari
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
1793
Source Details:
Captain Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791 (1793): Republished at Sydney’s First Four Years (1961), Library of Australian History