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leatherjacket

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Boladeree
English JS Main: 
leatherjacket
English: 
Our travelling friend Boladeree, who makes so conspicuous a figure in the last chapter, about this time committed an offence which we were obliged to notice. He threw a spear at a convict in the woods, and wounded him.
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
239
Line: 
18
Respelt: 
Bula-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

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