| 单词 | bushman |
| 例句 | The Namibian bushmen seem pretty impressed with Eddie's virgin fire–making skills, too. TV highlights 20/02/2013 2013-02-20T07:00:01Z Saker and Sinter are going to the jungles of Borneo on a quest with the forgotten group of nomadic bushmen called the Penan. Quick-fire interview: Steve Backshall 2012-11-29T11:35:11Z I also visit a small tribe of bushmen in Namibia. Experience: I am 16 and live alone in the wilderness 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The giants are like rugged bushmen, with scraggly hair and beards, and leggings covered with fur. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z While pursuing graduate studies in anthropology at Harvard, Mr. Gardner participated in a research trip to the Kalahari desert in Africa, where he and his colleagues documented the bushmen. Robert Gardner, renowned documentary filmmaker of ‘Dead Birds,’ dies at 88 A proud imperialist, Rhodes believed that the burden of both history and progress belonged to the Anglo-Saxon who must strive to triumph over the savagery of the “ape, bushman and pigmy.” The Rhodes scholarship wasn’t designed for my people — that’s why I had to win 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Surely an Inuit elder or a Kalahari bushman has equal credentials when it comes to describing and passing on a way of life or way of thought to enhance the lives of future generations. Readers recommend: songs about philosophers – results 2012-11-22T14:30:00Z The men always carry spears or bows to defend themselves against “bushmen”— the vicious, atavistic descendants of criminals and beggars — or even occasional marauders from Wales and Ireland. Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z "Some of the donated funds will be used in the running of a clinic which provides free medical care to the community of bushmen, including the treatment of malnutrition, tuberculosis and HIV," she said. Jolie, Pitt donate $2 million to African sanctuary 2011-01-03T16:35:08Z Margaret Courtney-Clarke’s latest book When Tears Don’t Matter portrays the lives of the remaining bushmen in the Kalahari in eastern Namibia. Seven groundbreaking female photographers – in pictures 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z They all wore bright green bushman’s hats adorned with a leaping springbok—the symbol of the World Cup-winning national rugby team—above khaki beige-and-green shirts. The challenge of building a fan culture for the International team - Golf Digest 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z But cutting yourself off completely from all current events is also impractical unless you are really wealthy or you like living like an Australian bushman. Opinion | One Man’s Self-Imposed News ‘Blockade’ 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z "It's a song that's close to our heart, I'm telling the people how the bushmen were hunted by the colonialists, how we are living, how we are still struggling." The first South Africans fight for their rights - BBC News 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z The San, also known as “bushmen”, were the first hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. Sisters fight to save ancient African language from extinction 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z She told him about the time she was on safari in Africa and asked the bushman serving as her guide if he knew who she was. Larry King has a special way of tweeting: The broadcast legend who just can’t retire 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z These are some macho men of the old Southern tradition, and trying their final product usually consists of a gigantically sharped bushman’s knife hacking through a Fred Flintstone style brontosaurus size steak. Five YouTube Channels That Will Make You A Better Cook 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z There is a vast difference between what Kung bushmen talk about in daylight hours and after dark. 10 things we didn't know last week 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Murray's bid for a second grand slam title Down Under has sparked a light-hearted dig at Australia's iconic celluloid hero "Crocodile Dundee", the weathered bushman played by Paul Hogan in the 1986 film. Murray success brings more moans than cheers Down Under 2013-01-15T04:56:37Z You’ll also find firewalking in Polynesia, among Japanese Taoists and Buddhists, and performed by certain bushmen in the Kalahari desert as part of their healing ceremonies. Come Firewalk With Me: The Physics of Hot Coals 2012-07-24T18:15:07.293Z Much of the bushman's time is passed in the saddle, and his dress consists of moleskin trousers, the sleeves of his shirt rolled up to the elbow, and a soft shady hat. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z When I arrived he was moody and often brooded, but it looked as if he had a talent for managing the bushmen. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Brave and intelligent as they were, they were 'new chums,' and certainly not born bushmen. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z "You have been too much for the bushmen," he said. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z There was, however, nothing suspicious in the rancher's attitude, and the others laughed in the soft fashion peculiar to the bushman. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z A bushman had once stuck him with a lot of brass filings. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z The shadow was a reflection of the deeper gloom in which the naked bushmen moved and served the powers that rule the dark. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Many of them became eccentric, or, as the working bushmen called it, "cranky," and were quite unfit for any other occupation. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z "Señor," he said, "though I have heard a little from the boys, you have not told me yet exactly how you came to fall into those bushmen's hands." Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z They and our bushmen are much of a kind, though I'm not quite sure that the hardest hoeing didn't fall to the sailor. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z He was a bushman of varied experience, and he has the credit of originating the system of native police in Queensland. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The bushmen believe they can take the form of the animals, and when they like make themselves invisible. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z It was noticed by a few observant bushmen that the soil in these forests was excellent, and a few experiments were made in the way of clearing the land. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z "I have heard that there are rifles in the hands of some of the bushmen up yonder." Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Still, it's your quiet bushmen and ours who'll do the getting there. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Hann is a first-class bushman, as hard as nails and full of energy. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z A man floundering through the undergrowth would, he reasoned, be heard a long way off, while a bushman could proceed with very little noise along a beaten track. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z He was no bushman, and was too eager and impulsive for a leader. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z What had roused him he could not tell, but he had, perhaps, lived long enough in that land to acquire a little of the bushman's unreasoning recognition of an approaching peril. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Oh, yes, you're innocent bushmen being played for suckers by a smart city man! Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The life of a drover, under the most favourable circumstances, is the reverse of a pleasant one, but like all nomadic occupations, it has a fascination for many bushmen. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z Man's capacity for endurance is, as even the hard-handed bushman knows, moral as well as physical; but Ingleby was making his last effort when he reached the great rift between the hills. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z But the Australian bushman would not hesitate about putting a hippopotamus into harness. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z It would certainly be difficult to storm that gate, but these bushmen who are building the stockade will have the sense to realize it and tell their friends. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Sibijaan was our cook and general handy man, while the mules and wagonette were in charge of Tuis, a half-breed Basuto bushman. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z His companions were strong, stolid bushmen, whose business it was to carry the provisions and camp outfit. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z Nobody was pleased with the mining regulations, and there were quiet Canadian bushmen who thought the drafting of detachments of the Northwest Police into that country not only unnecessary, but a reflection upon them. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Their eyes were clear, and like those of most bushmen singularly steady; their skin was weather-darkened, and they were leanly muscular. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z As you have heard, the bushmen are in an unsettled state, and there are several sick men here. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z “What a splendid bushman you are, Jack!” he said. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Where I was raised they used to say that a bushman can get a crop wherever he can fire the seed among the rocks with a shotgun. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z But one day my father was speared by a party of bushmen, whom he had caught driving off a bull. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z That’s about as much as you could expect one to be capable of, even allowing for the bushman’s appetite. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z It was a difficult matter to reach her deck, and Lamartine's boys were bushmen who knew nothing of the sea. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z A year at Kimberley is enough to try even a bushman.” From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z He was, to judge from his appearance, one of the stolid bushmen who come out West from the forests of Northern Ontario—tireless men with ax and plow, but with little knowledge of anything else. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Their cattle were continually driven off by the bushmen, and their fruit plundered and their guns and hoes and the like stolen by the Hottentots. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z These bushmen were accustomed to hunting and trailing, and did not rush at each other's throats, shouting and firing more or less at random. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z "There is discontent up yonder among the bushmen?" Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z When a bushman took the rocks he went to shoot big-horn and bear. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z It would, she realized, have been easier for him had he been born a bushman, for there was no doubt in her mind that he was one who had been accustomed to luxury in England. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z The next morning Jack started for Kimberley riding his pony Nobbier, Kildare and The Muffin Man being ridden by two little bushmen who were in his service. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z But yet among them students," said the bushman, "there wuz one As hit me an' the settlement as fair as any gun. Sonnets and Other Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:08.503Z The bushmen would come by the rear of the stockade which we leave lower, and when they do I think we shall also be ready for them there. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z He was frugal and laborious; in fact, he prospered because he had your bushman's qualities. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z He was a very old bushman; he had a black-fellow's eye for a footprint, and he had struck a trail here which he knew to be recent and not his own. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Henry Lawson, an Australian, tells of the intelligence of the bushman at his highest development in a study entitled "His Colonial Oath." The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Let them wait until the bushmen lib for climb the stockade, and then split their heads with the matchets. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z When these bushmen call upon us we shall be ready. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Where the bushman can find fuel and material for building he does not bother about the frost, and in winter the Royal North-West patrols sleep by their camp-fires far out on the snowy wilds. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z His arms were thicker than the bushman's, though white and fleshy. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z The Australian bushman has, what is generally known as a "rat"; in fact, the lunacy of Australia is most alarming. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z "And I would it may also be written that I shall still follow my master should these dogs of bushmen meddle again." The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The bushmen are generally right in these things. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z I expect you're a good bushman, but this is a job for a first-class mountaineer. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z He was a bushman from top to toe. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z The bushman addressed himself to the cold beef and damper with a sigh of relief as he watched his hostess pick up a bridle and walk rapidly across the horse-paddock. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z "It was Rideau who brought misfortune upon us from the beginning, and to judge by the rifle the bushman left, he was the instigator of the last attack." The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z He was a very cheerful man, always looking at the bright side of things, full of resources, an excellent bushman. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z The fire had got firm hold and advanced steadily across the belt of chopped trunks and branches bushmen call the slashing. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z He had purposely dwelt upon those material allurements which the bushman's mind would most readily grasp. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Besides all this, there were a couple of rugs, and as many double blankets of the ordinary gray colour used by travelling bushmen. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Have you ever seen a comrade poisoned by the bushmen—when they meant to hurt him? The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z He was a good bushman, and in ten days or so we had a really decent comfortable little house up. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z They're a rancher's clothes and I don't mind looking like a bushman. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z The bushman might exchange his wideawake for a coronet, but could the peer go back to the bush? My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z In him he perceived, as he thought, the ordinary bushman, an experienced stock-rider, or, perhaps, confidential drover, and thence he began to wonder how much of his past history he had been made acquainted with. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z I think," said Maxwell cheerfully, when they lingered over a frugal meal, "if any misguided bushmen try to rush this camp to-night they will regret it. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Knights and barons possess fortified dwellings, and exercise unbounded power within their stockaded estates—stockaded against bushmen, forest savages, against bands of gipsies, and against wild cattle and horses. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Then I was born a bushman and the bush calls. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Out there he had enjoyed the reputation of being "a good bushman," and he meant to enjoy it again. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z The bushmen of the Kalahari desert belong to one of the earliest branches of the genetic tree based on human mitochondrial DNA. Languages Grew From a Seed in Africa, Study Says 2011-04-14T18:11:49Z For a space of a few seconds there was no sound at all, and he grew the more uneasy, knowing that the naked bushman learns by sheer necessity to wriggle almost silently through the undergrowth. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Then I guess I’ll have to hire a bushman’s shack or take you to sea in the yacht. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z She had a bushman's balance, and her unconscious pose was Greek. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z But it did not delight him as it had delighted Jack; the master bushman failed to share his old hand's sentimental regard for all that pertained to the bush. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Besides, bushmen are not to be denied or trifled with on such points. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z It has stood so from the beginning, a place of everlasting shadow, for the naked bushmen to hunt each other in; and it will be the same long centuries after you and I are gone. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z If the auto jumps a bushman’s bridge or goes down into a gulch, you’ll be sorry you snubbed me.” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z In thick timber, a bushman can front biting cold; but on the high, icy rocks one could not make camp and light a fire. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z To a bushman, however, even without a star to help him, such a task could present no difficulties. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Swearing, however, is a common failing of the most estimable bushmen; so that, coming from a man like Miles, the words meant simply nothing. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z Still, as the bushmen may try to stop us on the way, you will not start until you are rested, and I think you ready. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z He was rather particular about such things for a bushman, and he may be called such without it being a misnomer. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z It's no' as plain as it looks, but the packers reckoned two o' the police who went in with the doctor were pretty good bushmen. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Neither did he forget the shivering but smiling bushman, May. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z When he had thus expressed himself, Jim left his sister and went off to enjoy that luxury so dear to the heart of a bushman after his day's work, a swim in the river. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z It was done with so little noise that Dane found it hard to realize he had creatures of flesh and blood to deal with, and not the malevolent devils the bushmen believed in. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z There were no bloodhounds in Garry, very few Indians or breeds would lend assistance to track the White Chief Even so, none of them were better bushmen than himself. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Mossthorne is a horseman, a bushman, and a dare-devil not easily matched; but there are as good men as he on his track.' The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z They could hear the terrier yelping at his heels ever so far, and Frankfort, thoroughly dismayed at the idea, at once gave his faithful bushman up for lost. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Supporters of the bushmen inside and outside Botswana are greeting the court of appeal's judgement as a victory for the rule of law. Water in the desert 2011-01-27T16:20:33Z Monday apparently did so, for he moved off with a grin which betokened nothing pleasant for the bushmen; and Dane sat still with his eyes fixed on the forest. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Then he nodded and smiled in self-satisfied manner, listened again, and finally began to work his way through the thick undergrowth with the subtle motions of the practised bushman. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z A long-practised and trained bushman 'to the manner born,' he was familiar with all the exigencies of the wildest woodcraft. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Zoonah complied partially, but omitted the episode of his being discovered by May, and outwitted also by the bushman. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z This is a great victory for the bushmen, and also for Botswana as a whole. Water in the desert 2011-01-27T16:20:33Z The discipline, however, was there, and disaster would have overtaken any bushmen who attempted to profit by the apparent lack of it. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Rights groups say the government has tried to make the bushmen's lifestyle impossible An appeals court in Botswana has ruled that indigenous bushmen can drill wells for water in the Kalahari desert. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z The bushman always carries a small tea pail with him, if only a tin can fitted with a wire bail. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z It was evident that May was right—he was a spy on his way to his own chief’s kraal, and, as the bushman observed, it was useless to waste words upon a liar. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Nevertheless the bushmen managed to survive without the well. Water in the desert 2011-01-27T16:20:33Z If you go back and look at bushman art, early cave painting, you see sport being illustrated within those paintings. Artists From Around the World Add Own Touch to the World Cup 2010-07-10T16:01:00Z The court said the bushmen could use an existing well on their traditional land in the Kalahari Game Reserve, and excavate new wells. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z I have slept quite comfortably when wearing a wool toque, and I have also used the loose hood, which is worn by most northern bushmen to keep the snow from getting inside of the clothing. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z Your little bushman May was one of our drivers—he had been in our service before, and came to tell me that he recognised my father’s voice. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Short, with dark skin and curly hair, they resemble African bushmen in appearance. Last resort? 2010-03-29T08:22:00Z What appears marvelous and positively uncanny to a town person is simple to a bushman. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. The decision overturned a ruling made last July that took away the bushmen's rights to drill for water. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z In the bushman's outfit, as I see it, the blanket is second in importance only to the ax. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z We fared ill with the bushmen: if we went out to kill sea-cows, these robbers would follow us, or plunder our homes in our absence, or shoot at us with their poisoned arrows. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Ives smiled, for he had led up to the question, and was about to show off in yet another branch of the bushman's craft which even he had succeeded in mastering. The Shadow of a Man Without the faculty of remembering objects a bushman could not find his way through the dense forests. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. The new ruling also criticised the government's treatment of the bushmen as "degrading". Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z Many bushmen wind a strip of woolen blanket about the foot, and this has the advantage of being cheaper than extra socks. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z The girl young, blooming, sunny-haired, and graceful; the bushman stunted, ugly, and uncouth; nevertheless, they had many thoughts and feelings in common. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z It may be that Moya saw both bush and bushman in the same rosy light. The Shadow of a Man During forty years in the country, I never knew an Indian or white bushman to carry a compass. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. The Botswana bushmen have been embroiled in a long-running legal battle to return to their traditional land and way of life. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z Another suggestion had been that nothing but Mr. Williams's mutton should be eaten, whilst a third had proposed a bushman's menu. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle The bushman’s quick eye had detected a paper stuck in the string encircling the hat; it was the list. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z A Bethune engaged to a bushman who dared to treat her thus! The Shadow of a Man Still, the bushmen would not give in, and the soldiers had many a weary time in the trackless forests. The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith Diamonds have been discovered in the Kalahari Game Reserve, although the government insists that was not the reason it ordered the bushmen to be resettled outside the reserve. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z Our children are taught it in school, and the most illiterate bushman knows how to carry it out. On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote Lyle’s ear, almost as keen as May’s, was disturbed by the bushman’s movement, stealthy as it was; the next instant the hound sprung out. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z ‘Mak’ los’!’ screech he, an’ it sound like a bushman on de mad. Old Hendrik's Tales Some Masarwa bushmen tracked for them, and they rode at a brisk pace upon the trail, hour after hour, until noon had come and the sun lay midway in the sky between north-east and north-west. Tales of South Africa The Kalahari has been the bushmen's home for tens of thousands of years. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z Why is the latest thing in a fashionable gown like the South African bushman's club? The Handbook of Conundrums She went to meet him, and give him welcome; the poor little bushman cried and laughed with joy. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z It may be hoped, parenthetically, that as our theater gradually becomes civilized this survival of the manners of bushmen may become purely historic. How to See a Play We had some Masarwa bushmen with us, and they were as keen as hawks at the prospect of showing us heavy game, and getting a liberal supply of flesh. Tales of South Africa In 2006 the bushmen won the right to return and to hunt without permits, but many of them still live outside the reserve. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z When the call did come, he was out of the room like a wild bushman. A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. May, the bushman guide, still headed the cavalcade, a unique advance-guard, closely followed by two or three of the queerest-looking mongrels possible, of which his favourite was a species of water-spaniel. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Had he been a less accomplished bushman he might have lost her, for she plunged into the jungle unhesitatingly. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure My folk were bushmen and dreaded the sea, but these enemies were salt-water men, who could with axe and adz scoop from the solid tree outrigger canoes and who were terrible in their strength. The Portal of Dreams The UK-based rights group Survival International, which has supported the bushmen, hailed the latest court decision. Botswana bushmen win court battle 2011-01-27T16:24:38Z And I—well, I am of the bushmen.’ McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 The sun is blazing out, and our bushman winds his bright-coloured douk round his head, and tramps round the angle of a jutting rock, staff in hand. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The old bushmen wanted it planted on a neck of land, where the waters protected it all but one side, and there a row of fence would have made it secure. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. But Ted positively insisted on being allowed to stay one further week with us, without pay, in order, he said, 'to finish my mate's eddication as a bushman.' The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Champlain and Étienne Brulé, the most daring bushman in New France, followed him thither by way of the Ottawa, Lake Nipissing, French River, and the Georgian Bay. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France The soldiers, the bushmen, and the reclaimed Raposa, already smeared from head to foot with red stains from their own veins and those of foemen, went stark mad. The Pathless Trail Zoonah, who understood English, knew, cast his eyes upon the turf, and bushman’s translation of the question. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The West India negro has so much contempt for his African cousin, that he invariably speaks of him by the ignominious title of "bushman." The History of the First West India Regiment He was drawing an intricate pattern in the dust with the blade of his pen-knife, a favourite pastime with bushmen. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The sick man had been carried to a civilised place by some bushmen, who were nursing him day and night. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Some of the men who brought in the wounded men continued on to the bushmen and, in significant sign manual, requested a loan of their machetes. The Pathless Trail The little bushman, whom we have introduced as the attendant of our English officers, must be more particularly described ere we advance in a story in which he will frequently make his appearance. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The bushman fled in wild terror, and with a bound the lion began the chase. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Hal did not need any coaching in the manners or ways of a bushman. Australia Revenged His quick, restless movements suggested nervous energy, but when advisable, he could assume the bovine stolidity which, though foreign to his real nature, the Canadian bushman occasionally adopts for diplomatic purposes. Thurston of Orchard Valley A quiet smile showed in the bushman's eyes. The Pathless Trail The bushman had already tracked out his victim for the sport. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Moreover, the Canadian bushman is highly skilled in the use of the dangerous tool. Partners of the Out-Trail This saves the bushman's back, obviating the necessity of his stooping, and, moreover, allows him to get through more work. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand A bushmen always makes the best of a bad job, and Stobart did not see why he should not have as good a time as he possibly could while waiting for the chance to escape. In the Musgrave Ranges McKay eyed the bushman keenly, feeling that he was holding something back. The Pathless Trail Frankfort, surprised at the bushman’s want of caution, placed his forefinger on his lips to enjoin silence. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z He was a bushman; Jim knew the type, which was not, as a rule, marked by the use of small trickery. Partners of the Out-Trail By a simple disposition of the direction in which the gashes are cut, the bushman is able to bring down his tree to whichever side he wishes. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand But gradually Pat had won him over, for in the veins of every bushman runs enough gambler's blood to make the sporting risk of a gold-mine very alluring. In the Musgrave Ranges At length Knowlton suggested, tentatively: "We will pay well—" Both the bushmen frowned. The Pathless Trail The result was, that Zoonah traced his way to the thicket where the bushman had left a decoy, in the shape of scattered bread and meat, and an apparently empty bottle. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z He wore overalls, long leggings, and an expensive buckskin jacket, but although his skin was brown, he did not look like a bushman. Partners of the Out-Trail The bushman agrees to fall, fire, and log a specified tract, at a fixed price per acre. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand But bushman friendships are not based on bank balances, and the two had remained good friends. In the Musgrave Ranges The bushmen turned at once and stole away. The Pathless Trail The bushman had heard this two months ago from the Boer himself at Beaufort, when he came there, in his perplexity, to consult his fellow-colonists. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z You can take him over the ranges and along the blazed track: no doubt, you’ll find him a better bushman than myself. The Tale of Timber Town Really, these bushmen are very nice fellows, after all, in spite of their rough looks. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The drover was too old a bushman to allow the perishing man to have all the water he wished for. In the Musgrave Ranges He thundered at the young bushman as if about to do him bodily injury. The Pathless Trail “Does the sir call?” asked the bushman, awakened in a moment, and rolling himself down the mound, on which the store-waggon stood, to the tent. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z My days as a bushman are over, I fear; but I shall have much pleasure in giving £20 to the expenses of the search-party. The Tale of Timber Town Contrasted with the unkempt, slovenly, ragged, and dirty bushmen with whom he mostly comes in contact, he is the very essence of foppery. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand It seemed a good joke to him that a bushman should ask for a teetotal drink. In the Musgrave Ranges Armed only with machetes, the two bushmen now were—where? The Pathless Trail The bushman retired to his mat and Major Frankfort to his tent. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z His back was bent under the weight of his neat, compact swag, which contained his six-by-eight tent and the blankets and gear necessary to a bushman. The Tale of Timber Town Plates, forks, and spoons are to them degeneracies,—things that no noble bushman needs or requires. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The recuperative powers of the Australian bushman are wonderful. In the Musgrave Ranges Over at the other doorway the bushmen threw aside their useless guns and drew their machetes. The Pathless Trail “I told the sir,” said the bushman, when he recovered breath on landing, “that Zoonah was thief as well as liar, but Master Ormsby only laughed.” Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z The fact is, I was taken captive by some of the bushmen. Frances Kane's Fortune The only immediate facility that settlers and bushmen at such places have for procuring it, is such as is afforded by the boat. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand So the brave bushman was going to take no risks. In the Musgrave Ranges Meanwhile the three bushmen were striking down enemies at every flash of their guns, firing with the swift surety of veterans of many a running fight. The Pathless Trail Oh! master,” cried the poor bushman, in a voice of despair, “what shall I do?—my wife! my little child!” Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Hot climate and country work have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a belt or leather strap round the top of trousers instead of braces. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia But we no longer regard it from any artistic or ornamental point of view; that would be to derogate from our character as bushmen. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Their bushman friend did not leave them long in uncertainty. In the Musgrave Ranges Therefore the bushman insinuated something which his cruel mind could comprehend. The Pathless Trail Talk of might against right in this country—I should like to know who are the rightful owners of it—why, those little nations, the bushmen. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z It is sometimes termed the `birdcatching plant' by settlers and bushmen . Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia A bushman's work is severe and energetic, altogether in contrast with the lazy stop-and-rest methods of too many labourers at home. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The little light flared up steadily and showed two boys in pyjamas, the smooth cement walls of the tank, and the bushman in his shirt and trousers, but without his boots. In the Musgrave Ranges As noiselessly as they had gone the two bushmen had returned. The Pathless Trail On the night in question, May, like a true bushman, was too much disconcerted by the commotion in the elements to sleep. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Many of these, accurately named in Latin and described by the botanists, have not yet found their vernacular equivalents; for the bushman and the settler do not draw fine botanical distinctions. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia If a single bushman could not have knocked that tree over before dinner-time, he would not have been worth wages in this country; I am sure of that. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Then the seasoned bushman and the new-chum white boy kept watch, turn and turn about till dawn. In the Musgrave Ranges I might be useful to him in catching Rand if Rand was out in the bush, for I have traveled this country alone more than once and am a far better bushman than the German. The Pathless Trail All your reasoning would be as useless as whistling jigs to milestones—all your wrath like the grimaces, and the sputtering, and the swearing of the bushmen at a storm of thunder and lightning. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z A "good bushman" is especially used of a man who can find his way where there are no tracks. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia A bushman reckons to earn five shillings a day, taking one day with another, so he ought to knock down an acre of stuff in from five to ten days. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand "I tell you, I was," confessed the bushman. In the Musgrave Ranges At that moment Monitaya and Lourenço both arose, the chief to inspect in person the progress of the arrangements for the feast, the bushman to return to his companions with additional news. The Pathless Trail The little bushman kept watch upon the top of the block-house from dawn till sunset, and Marion shared his vigil for hours. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z "Where the wild bushman eats his loathly fare." Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia But occasionally we sell a barrel of pork, or some flitches and hams, to such local buyers as the bushmen employed at the saw-mills. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand At last the thing loosened and came up, and the bushman sprawled on his back. In the Musgrave Ranges Following his look, the bushman gazed critically at the red-haired man. The Pathless Trail You know Winchester, the Australian rough-rider, who did such fine work with his bushman corps in the South African war—and—let me see! The Message It is invariably erect, never climbing, although bushmen and settlers frequently state that it climbs the loftiest trees, and sooner or later squeezes them to death in its iron clasp. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia One can always make oneself comfortable enough in the bush, if one has those three articles, that are the bushman's "never-be-withouts." Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand A bushman, painted black for mourning, suddenly called to one of my boys, and wanted to shake hands with him. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific I have two men, senhores, who have no peers as bushmen. The Pathless Trail "Next to stalking bushmen in the wild, wild woods, I know of nothing more soothing to the nerves." Bones in London It is hardly likely that so splendid a bushman as Mr. Batman would venture upon such an expedition had he not been well. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Her children knew that, like the bushman's collie, she found refreshment at some secret spring. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds He armed his men, and after a siege of several weeks the bushmen gave up the watch and retired. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The bushman ran his eye up the towering tree, then pointed to a large dark object on the ground near by. The Pathless Trail I started about 10.30 P.M., dressed as an ordinary bushman, riding an old bay horse which we kept for these occasions, and my revolver hidden 139 but handy. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon Hence, the wild Indians of the continent, the bushmen of Africa, the aborigines of Australia, the Laplanders of the North, and many such have been chosen of men—though not of God. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 So, bushman though he was, he preferred comfortable quarters for the night, to a stretcher beside a camp fire. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Altogether, the bushmen of Santo are none too reliable, and only the memory of a successful landing expedition of the English man-of-war a year ago keeps them quiet. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The bushmen, quick to note anything that might be a sign, paid no attention to the bird's flight, but marked with unerring eye the spot whence it had taken wing. The Pathless Trail I told Burleigh that Morant was a gentleman, a good rider and bushman, and I didn’t think he personally feared anything. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon Ten more minutes fled by, and Clavering, quivering in an agony of impatience, found it almost impossible to sit still; but at last the bushman stood up and laid his rifle on the table. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter It was melancholy for him, as for any sentient creature, to contemplate the blind infatuation with which bushmen generally squander their money; or, more properly speaking, allow themselves to be robbed of it. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter William Hann was a first-class bushman, but it is quite evident he was very much astray in one portion of the trip, which led to the great gold discovery. Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869 With no apparent motion of the paddles—though the wrists of the paddlers moved almost imperceptibly—the canoe of the bushmen floated to the bank. The Pathless Trail He came to the private entrance where he was seen by Eustace, who described him as a well-built man of medium height, with sandy hair and beard and, by appearance, an ordinary bushman. The Rider of Waroona The rancher endeavoured to smile, with very small success for he was consumed with an unsatisfied longing to destroy the bushman. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter Farini's bushmen and Harrison's Congo pygmies were perfect samples of the dwarf race about which I am writing. More Science From an Easy Chair "What real bushmen would boil their billy on a spirit-lamp when there's wood and to spare for a camp-fire on all sides of 'em?" Stingaree The veteran bushman promptly stepped forward and said his say. The Pathless Trail A bushman slouching past with his roll of blankets slung across his back, glanced round at the waggon and continued his way to the hotel. The Rider of Waroona Slender trees slid athwart the moonlight, closed on one another, and opened out, and still, though the snow was scanty and in places swept away, Grant and a big Michigan bushman rode straight on. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter An Australian bushman will travel a whole day to kill a crow. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia There’s nothing of the barbarian about these 67 bushmen. The Long Portage The charge of the party was offered to Hamilton Hume, a young native of the colony, and a most expert and intrepid bushman. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 Reining in as they came up to the small object, they saw it was an ordinary bushman's slouch hat. The Rider of Waroona The bushman grinned sardonically, and Clavering’s fears were confirmed. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter His feet were enclosed in shoepacks, soggy with water, and he was otherwise clad in the nondescript fashion of old bushmen. The Rapids “Yes,” Lisle responded; “he’s making a good deal more noise than a bushman would.” The Long Portage His brother, Alexander Forrest, and a long list of bold and skilful bushmen, have succeeded in traversing the continent in every direction. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 Oh, yes, I admit he rides well enough for one, but many men ride besides bushmen. The Rider of Waroona “Oh!” she said with a gasp, and her face grew pale 244 and stern as closing one hand she, too, looked at the bushman. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter In years past there had been individual discoveries by wandering bushmen, but none of them of value. The Rapids I can guess your thoughts—I don’t speak altogether like a bushman? The Long Portage “It is a pity to lose these,” said Harry, clapping them into the pockets of his jacket—good capacious ones, as every bushman’s should be. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers Only a doctor to look after them and maybe a bushman or so to boil a billy and make some tea between whiles. The Rider of Waroona He felt the thud of the billet upon something soft, but the next moment it was torn from him, the rifle fell with a clatter, and he and the bushman reeled against the stove together. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter Bill's heart, like every bushman's heart, was full of that faith and devotion which passes all understanding. The Kangaroo Marines Could Superintendent Magwood spare an experienced bushman and trailer to go north and take temporary charge? The Return of Blue Pete He was a tall, bearded fellow, and dressed in the usual style affected by the timber-getters and other bushmen of the district Presently he began to talk. The Call Of The South 1908 Their only enemies were the bushmen, who never engaged in open warfare, but stole the cattle of their neighbours at night, being armed with lances and poisoned arrows. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries Then the bushman looked up again with an almost 245 silent chuckle. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter He received us most hospitably, like all good bushmen, and offered to assist us in looking for lost cattle. "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 No others of the indigenous quadrupeds are usually used for food, although occasionally bushmen eat the wombat and echidna, and, more rarely, the bandicoots and kangaroo rats. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Some bushmen persisted, so Gilfillan told me, in calling these fish "fresh water mullet," or "speckled mullet". The Call Of The South 1908 Not being a good bushman, I suspect I went several miles out of my way. A Boy's Voyage Round the World At the present time he was clad in the usual Crimean shirt, white moleskins, and brown leather leggings, and the grey slouched felt hat affected by most bushmen. Tom Gerrard He was a splendid type of the native-born Australian bushman, over six feet two in height, and simple and unaffected in his manner. "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 One has heard and read of the pigmy inhabitants of Africa—Pliny, wasn’t it, who wrote about them?—and there were the bushmen of farther south. Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites I suspect they've got some trinkets to trade with us, as we might offer beads to bushmen. Long Ago, Far Away I immediately engaged them as the bushman's servants; they were a respectable couple; the man a very prudent person. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 And whatever I may have said in the past I 'take back' as we bushmen say, and I want you to give me some of your affection. Tom Gerrard None of us were experienced bushmen, and we had neglected to gather sufficient fuel. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Mary's white dress rustled as crisply as did her mother's petticoat and her hair, crimped and ironed until it was fuzzy as a bushman's, drifted out behind her, a hempen whirlwind. Carl and the Cotton Gin It was, he told himself, like being privileged to witness the awakening of social ambitions in a tribe of bushmen. The Lady Doc Then it is that the bushmen, guided by the vultures, haste to the forest, and fall upon the putrid flesh with more avidity than birds of prey. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver A bunch of Australian bushmen stumbling onto a ramjet and trying to figure out how it works. Masters of Space I promised him also one hundred picked Australian bushmen, New Zealand Maoris and Gurkhas to act as scouts and counter-snipers. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 Worth and Captain Ward, of the Wonder, greeted Koho, but Worth frowned at sight of the Snider, for it was one of his tambos that no visiting bushman should carry a weapon on the plantation. A Son Of The Sun To the Hottentot, to the Australian bushman or to the Russian peasant one woman is as good as another. Woman Her Sex and Love Life After wasting a couple of months, he purchased the aid of certain bushmen, headed by a notorious scoundrel named Jen-ken, who had acquired renown for his barbarous ferocity throughout the neighborhood. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver This desert land was inhabited by numbers of bushmen and other natives, as well as by large quantities of game of various kinds. The Gorilla Hunters There was no Mayflower compact with the bushmen when Englishmen decided to live with the natives in Australia. Society Its Origin and Development The weazened little Scotchman could make trouble as well as mend it, and, not content with holding the beach, he imported bushmen from Malaita and invaded the wild-pig runs of the interior jungle. A Son Of The Sun One of the greatest matters of interest to the bushman, who has loved relations in the old country, is the arrival of the post. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia Several assaults were made by this savage and his bushmen on the dissatisfied cousin, but as they produced no significant results, the barbarians withdrew to the interior. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Aren't you bushman enough yet to know that drinking blood 's only the beginning of the end? The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Worse still, snakes or some of the wandering bushmen with bows and poisoned arrows.” A Dash from Diamond City Some of the bushmen reported a ketch here, and I just dropped around to see. A Son Of The Sun “An old servant, mother, of the gentleman’s,” answered the young bushman. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found A palaver-house, immediately in front of my quarters, was the general rendezvous; and scarcely a bushman appeared without the body of some maimed and bleeding victim. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver And so they had pushed on, eagerly, hopefully, till the terrible truth began to dawn on the older and more experienced bushman. The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Your grin looked idiotic: half-way between a bushman and a baboon.” A Dash from Diamond City The woolly-haired African race includes the negroes and the very primitive bushmen. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told “Here we are,” said the young bushman, shortly after, as they made their way through the tangled trees and shrubs, and came upon a large-sized log-hut. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found Some twenty years before my arrival at the Cape, large bands of mercenary bushmen had joined his enemies along the beach, and after desolating his territory, sat down to beleaguer the stockade of Toso. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver They had gone out to seek new country, crossed the Queensland border into South Australia, and now, old bushman as he was, Anderson had only the vaguest idea of their whereabouts. The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Each marauder in turn had left something of a mark, but none had left so bare a skeleton or had stamped so plainly the impress of horrid war as a column of somebody's bushmen. On the Heels of De Wet And I—well, I am of the bushmen—' he scratched himself and smiled emptily. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories “A relation of the young gent’s, I guess?” asked the bushman. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found Most bushmen are covered from head to foot with hair, and I imagine they think this is a good enough uniform, for they wear nothing except what nature gave them. Around the World in Ten Days The back blocks are very effectual levellers, and each saw in the other a very ordinary bushman, riding a horse so poor, the wonder was he was deemed worth mounting at all. The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas But it is admitted that the leaders were not bushmen and had had no experience in exploration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The place seemed peaceful enough, but he had that queer sense of the bushman, a sense almost amounting to an instinct, that told him that there was trouble ahead. The Lost Valley “I’m right glad to hear it; give me your hand, friend,” cried the bushman, treating him, at the same time, to a grip which made his fingers tingle. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found "I have read of these bushmen," said Bob. Around the World in Ten Days Although only semi-naked savages using flint instruments in a style much like the bushmen, they were the root, so to speak, of a wonderful artistic stock. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry "Even you have lost heart, Jack," said the big bushman, "but we shall find her yet; the wife shall have that comfort." Dot and the Kangaroo He was cursing the horse and the slope and everything and everyone within hearing in the simple and forceful fashion of the Australian bushman. The Lost Valley I rode off to find a doctor, but no doctor could I find; but I met a young bushman, who said he’d get some one to look after you till I could return.” Frank Oldfield Lost and Found That is to say, they waded up to a collection of little tents, not unlike bushmen's tents in Australia, and stood knee deep at the entrances, looking into them—speechless. Letters from France I have known the sons of gentlemen of good family working as bullock-drivers, shepherds, stockdrivers, bushmen, for a yearly wage, and nobody considered the employment derogatory. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 They were almost exactly in the situation of Australian bushmen who live exclusively by foraging, with some not-too-efficient hunting. Operation Terror Some faint noise had caught his ear, and, excellent bushman that he was, he would not rest content until he had located and defined it. The Lost Valley His clothes were all soiled, his sleeves rolled up, and he looked like a regular bushman. Under Sealed Orders The leader was a man—a weatherbeaten, square-jawed, rugged old bushman—who marched solemnly, holding a stick in front of him, from which hung a flag. Letters from France The bushman who comes to town to 'knock down his cheque,' the squatter who wants a little amusement, both prefer Melbourne to spend their money in. Town Life in Australia We don't object to the bushmen forming unions. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel He was a bushman, rough and weather-beaten, with only one peculiarity. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Mr. Bourne, who is an experienced bushman, has read this letter and thinks I have not given too favourable an account of the country along our route from the Gulf of Carpentaria. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills The big bushman from Gippsland at a neighbouring coffee stall—praise heaven for that institution—gives them a drink of the warm stuff. Letters from France The colonists are genuinely fond of music, bushmen and townsmen alike. Town Life in Australia The southern bushmen, threatened themselves, were sending to Queensland the hard cash that turns doubtful battles. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Sometimes the solitary bushman or prospector, looking across a deep valley, saw, nestled amongst the opposite hills, a beautiful meadow of grass. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The Australian bushman and digger loves tea, and can almost exist upon it; but these Boers cling to coffee. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front It will be a new experience, and if I can't forget her among soldiers and convicts, miners and bushmen—well, then, I will come back and make a third attempt. For Woman's Love A 'billy' is the tin pot in which the bushman boils his tea; a 'pannikin,' the tin bowl out of which he drinks it. Town Life in Australia It's the system we're fighting, not the products of it, and he's only a product just like the fat beasts we abuse and the ignorant drunken bushmen he despises. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I selected the best bushman of my party and went off to see whether anything was to be apprehended from these natives, but I soon found that the report was in some degree exaggerated. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 The bushman's daughter is dirty yellow, like river water in flood time. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front When the present war first sent its murmurs over the South, an old bushman earnestly denied that it 'would ruin everything.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Excepting the Bible, Shakespeare, and Macaulay's 'Essays,' the only literature within the bushman's reach are newspapers. Town Life in Australia And there were wild reports afloat of resistance brooding in Queensland and of excited meetings in the bush and of troops being sent to disperse the bushmen's camps. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I wish some scientific traveller would rigidly test the powers of good bushmen and find their "probable" angular deviation from the true course under different circumstances. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries I know him for a rattling good shot at either man or beast, a fine bushman, and a dandy horseman. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front The bushmen have Kwai Hemm, who swallows the sacred Mantis insect. Modern Mythology He is a regular Jack ashore, this bushman. Town Life in Australia He had flung himself into unionism because there was nothing else that promised help or hope and because he hated the squatters, who took, as he looked at it, contemptible advantage of the bushmen. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel It is quite astonishing at how great a distance the gleam of the glass will catch the sharp eyes of a bushman who has learnt to know what it is. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries The bushmen generally shaved the edges of their wool to leave a nice close-fitting natural skull cap, wore a single blanket draped from one shoulder, and carried a war club. African Camp Fires Somebody had made the passage easier by roughly squaring its upper surface, though it is seldom a Canadian bushman takes this precaution with his primitive bridge. Carmen's Messenger The man laughed, and answered him in the bushman's slowest drawl. Alton of Somasco Who, could do this as the bushmen could, as he and his houseless, homeless, wandering mates could? The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I expect he was moved by the feeling the bushman gets when he's up against Nature; he knows he'll be crushed if he can't make good. The Lure of the North They began to doubt the affirmation of the bushman, and Ardan was going to renounce the pursuit as useless, when all at once Maston stopped. The Moon-Voyage He was a good hunter and bushman, and did not think there was much risk of his being seen. Carmen's Messenger He turned, and swung up the axe while the big bushman swept his blade aloft, and Deringham watched them curiously. Alton of Somasco No matter what the bushmen do up there in Queensland, my heart is with them, so long as they shake this hateful state of things. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel He had seen these beans, after the kernels were scooped out, mounted with silver, and used as match-boxes by bushmen and other Australian gentry. By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories But the bushman did not seem to understand. The Moon-Voyage The weka, or wood-hen, with rudimentary wings like tufts of brown feathers, whose odd, inquisitive ways introduce it so constantly to the shepherd and bushman, at first preyed upon the young rabbits and throve. The Long White Cloud Anybody used to it could get through at a gallop, while a good bushman could scarcely make five miles a day walking where it's tolerably thick. Alton of Somasco Ten thousand bushmen with rifles wouldn't have much trouble with the Government and the Government wouldn't have much trouble with ten thousand bushmen without rifles. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Many of these modes of obtaining water are of course known to experienced bushmen, like Mr. Eyre, whose deeply interesting narrative of his hardships and perils has already enlisted the sympathy of the public. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The difference between this bushman's twig and the love-letter of a civilized modern suitor is no greater than the difference between aboriginal Australian "love" and genuine romantic love. Primitive Love and Love-Stories He was an expert bushman, and a capital manager of the friendly natives. The Long White Cloud "Do you know that you bushmen have made me ashamed once or twice?" she said. Alton of Somasco "Where was that?" asked Ned, wide-awake at last, alarmed for the bushmen rapidly turning over in his mind the effect of strong young men being ready to work for their board. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I rode among the musterers as gamely as any of the big sunburnt bushmen. My Brilliant Career In the meantime the bushmen, whose advance had been, and still was, very slow and cautious, as if they dreaded an ambuscade, had approached to within seventy yards of the house. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII The information of the bushman was after all doubtful, and Ardan was about to propose their abandoning this useless pursuit, when all at once Maston stopped. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Still, like most of the bushmen, he did not express his feelings in speech. Alton of Somasco Ned was confronted again with the fact that the bushman and the townsman view the same thing from opposite sides. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel The men were honest, good-natured, respectable, common bushmen farmers. My Brilliant Career As the bull’s horns and stamping hoofs kept off the coyotes, so his shot-gun kept off these Solomon Islanders, these twilight shades of bushmen of the island of Guadalcanal. The Red One But the bushman did not seem to understand him. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Now one can usually hear the thudding of the axe a mile or more in the stillness of the woods that is not silence to the bushman's ear. Alton of Somasco Like most bushmen, Ned, who was sublimely tolerant of ants, lizards and the pests of the wilds generally, shivered at the very thought of the parasites of the towns. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Many an extra line of care furrowed the brows of the disheartened bushmen then. My Brilliant Career May my shadow be accursed and chilled to the bone for ever if it should fall to murdering like a bushman with his poisoned arrows!' Allan Quatermain It is this which puzzles the long-shoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman. Main Street Alton knew that most of the bushmen and free prospectors had a standard of honour which was somewhat higher than that usually lived up to in the cities. Alton of Somasco "I suppose you're one of the bushmen," remarked the lad, pausing. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel The tall, broad, independent figure of the bushman with his easy gentlemanliness, his jockey costume enhancing his size. My Brilliant Career The man was monosyllabic to a degree, as the real bushmen generally are. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories For us the bush is never sad: Its myriad voices whisper low, In tones the bushmen only know, Its sympathy and welcome glad. Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses It would have pleased him better to carry the latter, but the bushman brings home a deer with its fore-legs drawn over his shoulders and grasped in front of him. Alton of Somasco Husband and children and friends, all must go as this bushman was going, going with his noble thoughts and pure instincts and generous manhood and eager brain. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Harold was as clever in this way as any other man with as much bushman ability as he had, so it was not long ere we were bowling along as merrily as ever. My Brilliant Career They are all pearl-fishers or pilots, not a bit like the bushmen I expected. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories Although we have no songs of strife, Of bloodshed reddening the land, We yet may find achievements grand Within the bushman's quiet life. Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses "It was the big bushman I saw there?" said another person, and Alice Deringham felt a curious little quiver in her fingers as she waited the answer. Alton of Somasco There, finding the bushman alone, he stepped up and, clapping his hand on Ned's shoulder, said quietly in his ear: "In the Queen's name!" The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel The bushmen up-country shaved regularly every Sunday morning, but never during the week for anything less than a ball. My Brilliant Career The hard, resentful look on the faces of all bushmen comes from a long course of dealing with merino sheep. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories The keeper pours out about half a pannikin of raw rum and hands it to the bushman. The Captain of the Polestar Horton also made a speech to them, and appeared somewhat offended when some of them broke into the bushman's silent chuckle. Alton of Somasco But she stopped while, under the umbrella, he struck a match with a bushman's craft. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though laden with faint perfume, 'Tis the fragrance rare that the bushman knows, The scent of the wattle bloom. Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Ben Duggan, the drover, along the hillside Came riding as only a bushman can ride. In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Till Trooper Scott, from the Stockman's Ford — A bushman, too, as I've heard them tell — Chanced to find him drunk as a lord Round at the Shadow of Death Hotel. The Man from Snowy River "I am only a bushman, and I am sorry," he said. Alton of Somasco The selector, the digger, the bushman, as the townman, what has life for them? The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Jemmy Mungaro was also a first-class bushman, and invaluable as a water finder. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, No bushman in a single day had ridden half so far Since Johnson brought the doctor to his wife at Talbragar. In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses He rode all night and he steered his course By the shining stars with a bushman's skill, And every time that he pressed his horse The Swagman answered him gamely still. The Man from Snowy River No one but a bushman could have heard them, but to those who toil in the stillness of that forest-shrouded land the silence is but the perfect blending of musical sound. Alton of Somasco Haven't I told you she said on Thursday that she would come and bring the wild untamed bushman with her? The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel That's about as much as you could expect one to be capable of, even allowing for the bushman's appetite. Vane of the Timberlands Then life seemed finished — then death began As down in the dust I sank, But he stuck to his mate as a bushman can, Till I heard him saying, 'Bear up, old man!' In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses A grunt was all reply he got; he shaved the bushman's chin, Then made the water boiling hot and dipped the razor in. The Man from Snowy River A misty light was creeping into the tent when he was awakened by the thudding of his companion's axe, and rising stiffly with the ache at the hip-joint which every bushman knows, went out shivering. Alton of Somasco Connie had mimicked her husband's imaginary bushman in a kindly humorous way that was very droll. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel In fact, cookery is one of the bushman's trials; anyway, when he's working for himself. Vane of the Timberlands Do the bushmen, down on pleasure, miss the everlasting stars When they drink and flirt and so on in the glow of private bars? In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show; He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go. The Man from Snowy River Seaforth looked at the bushman, and his face was curiously grim. Alton of Somasco He fingered a half-crown in his pocket, with a bushman's careless generosity. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel "Is that, in its wider sense, a characteristic of most bushmen?" Vane of the Timberlands Bush! where there is no horizon! where the buried bushman sees Nothing — Nothing! but the sameness of the ragged, stunted trees! In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses He had shown that as a solitary companionless bushman, it had been a pleasure to him in his lone evenings "To create, and in creating live A being more intense." A Love Story Few habitues in the Peninsula think of entering it without a pocket compass, flint, and steel, and even the best bushmen have in their day been reduced to the greatest extremities. Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians Verses which bore that signature were as familiar to thousands of western bushmen as their own names. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Their eyes were clear and, like those of most bushmen, singularly steady; their skin was clean and weather-darkened; and they were leanly muscular. Vane of the Timberlands Then fast along the ridges Two bushmen rode a race, And the moonlight lent a glory To Trooper Campbell's face. In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses He had, therefore, to resort to the still more primitive method of “fire-sawing,” such as long, long ago the Australian bushmen had been wont to practice. Darkness and Dawn If he was handy and no woman to be had, he was always sent to break the news to the wife of a digger or bushman who had met with an accident. The Rising of the Court This is certainly, an awkward predicament; and nothing is so easy as for inexperienced bushmen to lose their way. The Bushman — Life in a New Country It is well for us to bear in mind that, as a rule, experienced bushmen do find the best points of new country, and not the worst. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 And then when the roads are at their worst, The bushman's children hear The cruel blows of the whips reversed While bullocks pull as their hearts would burst, And bellow with pain and fear. In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses He knew at once that these Things were lower than any human race ever recorded, far lower even than the famed Australian bushmen, who could not even count as high as five. Darkness and Dawn Harry, by the way, was a city-born bushman, who had been everything for some years. The Rising of the Court I notice that when a bushman puts crape round his hat he generally leaves it there till the hat wears out, or another friend dies. While the Billy Boils Believe me, that one experienced and courageous bushman is worth more than the eight soldiers Sir Thomas intends to take with him. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 "Sly Joker" "could take a rise out of anyone on the quiet;" "You could never tell when he was getting at you;" "Face of a born comedian," as bushmen said of Mitchell. Children of the Bush Tory, in that language, means a bush; and hence tory, a robber, or bushman; because robbers often secrete themselves in the bushes. Whig Against Tory The Military Adventures of a Shoemaker, a Tale of the Revolution He was a gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, and one of the best of the Australian explorers, as bushman, navigator, surveyor, and scientist. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work I thought of the many blind musicians in Sydney, and I thought of the bushman's chance, standing at a corner swanking a cheap concertina, and I felt sorry for him. While the Billy Boils Where the belated bushman camping for the night, finds the next morning that the water has sunk many feet, or perhaps has risen, when no rain has fallen far or near for months. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 You young Australians wouldn't understand it; most bushmen are poets and emotional. Children of the Bush Hence it is that bushmen and wild beasts live together in all sorts of inaccessible places, while the Damaras and oxen possess the land. The Folk-lore of Plants In 1884 H. Stockdale, who had had considerable experience in the southern colonies, and was an old bushman, made an excursion from Cambridge Gulf to the south through the Kimberley district. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work When I went back to the restaurant there was a long, gaunt sandy-complexioned bushman sitting by Jack's side. While the Billy Boils The leader of the party was Mr. William Landsborough, an experienced bushman, having already a good knowledge of new country gained in private exploration. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 He treated me with much more respect than is due from a bushman to a man, and with an odd sort of extra gentleness I sometimes fancied. Children of the Bush In the beginning of things there was a tree, and out of this tree came Damaras, bushmen, oxen, and zebras. The Folk-lore of Plants It was further proposed that an experienced bushman should be put in charge of them. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work Lies ad libitum; and every true Australian bushman must try his best to tell a bigger out-back lie than the last bush-liar. While the Billy Boils He was an old bushman, had had much to do with the formation of the native police of Queensland, and took a party of native troopers with him on this occasion. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 He related his experience with the cheerful and refreshing absence of reserve which was characteristic of him, and is of most bushmen. Children of the Bush A few miles up the creek, the naked bushmen served their savage gods with fantastic rites and the Ju-Ju men and Ghost Leopards ruled the shadowy land. Lister's Great Adventure Giles was fortunate on this his first trip in having two able and willing bushmen for his companions; otherwise he would not have progressed as far as he did and returned in safety. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work He had more than a snooze, however, for when he woke, it was dark, and the bushman's instinct told him it must be nearly nine o'clock. While the Billy Boils Finding that there was no more to be learnt from the bushmen, Leonard suffered them to depart, which they did at considerable speed, and ordered the Settlement men to make ready to march. The People of the Mist The bushmen are much too intelligent for the Army. Children of the Bush Believe in things the bushmen believe, ghosts and magic, and such. Lister's Great Adventure The last sentence is very pregnant, and implies that a very poor opinion of the men as experienced bushmen was entertained by those who saw them. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work Talking of killing bushmen before their time reminds me of some cases I knew. While the Billy Boils The interpreter had repeated all the bushmen's story to his companions, among whom, it is needless to say, it produced no small effect. The People of the Mist Bill was a bushman, so it was decided that he should go back to look for the horse. Children of the Bush Them bushman him d—n fool too much. Lister's Great Adventure His great confidence in himself led him to ignore or undervalue the fact, patent to others, that he was no bushman either by instinct or training. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work The idea of sleeping out might be nothing to bushmen—not even an idea; but "dossing out" in the city and "camping" in the bush are two very different things. While the Billy Boils Escaping from the bushmen, they entered a forest country which teemed with antelope and also with lions, that night by night they must keep at bay as best they could. The People of the Mist English artists, by the way, seem firmly convinced that the Australian bushman is born in Wellington boots with a polish on 'em you could shave yourself by. Children of the Bush The bushmen of Australia at night time build fires outside their huts or kraals to attract the attention of their followers. Marvels of Modern Science By the time he reached manhood, Hume was justly classed amongst the finest bushmen in the colony. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work Here a quiet-looking bushman in a corner of the carriage grew restless, and presently he opened his mouth and took the liar down in about three minutes. While the Billy Boils Charlie looked after the retreating bushman, and back at the good lady who was beaming at him. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life The parson was shocked, but later on he learned to appreciate the Giraffe and his mates, and to love Australia for the bushman's sake, and it was he who told me the above anecdote. Children of the Bush Having provided for the comfort of our faithful animals, our next step was to look for the bushmen. Station Amusements in New Zealand On his first expedition he was insufficiently equipped, had but inexperienced men with him, and was a bad bushman himself. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work A city bushman told it, of course, and he told it in the travellers' hut. While the Billy Boils Miss Grant felt almost sorry for this big, simple-looking bushman, who came strolling past their hiding-place, his eyes fixed on the sheep, and his hands mechanically occupied in cutting up tobacco. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life There was no poverty in Bourke—as it is understood in the city; there was plenty of food; and camping out and roughing it come natural to the bushmen. Children of the Bush Instead of a hot crowded room, these bushmen were going to sleep in their log hut, where the fresh pure air could circulate through every nook and cranny. Station Amusements in New Zealand He first came to the colony of New South Wales in 1836, and joined his uncle, a prosperous grazier, under whose guidance he soon became a good bushman with an ardent love of bush life. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work Someone—a tall, gaunt, determined-looking bushman, with square features and haggard grey eyes—had ridden in unnoticed through the scrub to the back of the shanty and dismounted by the window. While the Billy Boils For some time the bushman smoked in silence, looking at each man in turn, perhaps expecting them to laugh. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life They were both Cockneys and I suppose they reckoned themselves smart, but bushmen have more time to think. Children of the Bush Quite the other way about, for the percentage of honourable and reliable men among the bushmen is higher than among the educated men. Travels in West Africa In addition to Poole, Sturt was accompanied by Dr. Browne, a thorough bushman and an excellent surgeon, who went as a volunteer and personal friend. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work I felt indignant, thinking that—the house being full—the boss had taken advantage of the bushman's helplessness and good nature to put him there. While the Billy Boils The gaunt bushman hitched himself a little nearer, and spoke in an insinuating way. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life Nearly every bushman has at least one superstition, or notion, that lasts his time—as nearly every bushman has at least one dictionary word which lasts him all his life. Children of the Bush Mr. McKinlay, an experienced bushman, has left Adelaide upon this chivalric task, taking with him six men, twenty-four horses, and four camels. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia In 1884 Harry Stockdale, an experienced bushman, started from Cambridge Gulf in order to investigate the country to the southward, and explore the land in its vicinity. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work You might walk for twenty miles along this track without being able to fix a point in your mind, unless you are a bushman. While the Billy Boils He thought of the two bushmen whom Peggy had nursed through the fever with rough tenderness; and then, turning suddenly, he found Peggy standing at his elbow. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life The Australian bushman is born with a mate who sticks to him through life—like a mole. Children of the Bush He was a good traveller, and a better bushman than Wright. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia At night a body of armed bushmen marched down to inspect us. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 She has a keen, very keen, sense of the ridiculous; and some time or other she will amuse bushmen with the story. While the Billy Boils Even then Fate hadn't quite finished with the bushman. Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life I'd build a Swagman's Rest and call it the Lost Souls' Hotel, or the Sundowners' Arms, or the Half-way House to ——, or some such name that would take the bushmen's fancy. Children of the Bush |
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