The Kadaitcha SungPenguin Books, assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, 1990 - Fiction - 313 pages Novel using Central Australian mythology and sorcery beliefs. |
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Page 5
... night . The world below was still . Most men were asleep . The hunters and the bird , fish and animal totems hunted silently . The smaller spirits of the mighty winds scudded across the outstretched fingers of the restless heavens and ...
... night . The world below was still . Most men were asleep . The hunters and the bird , fish and animal totems hunted silently . The smaller spirits of the mighty winds scudded across the outstretched fingers of the restless heavens and ...
Page 10
... night . There was one who had only lately become a man . His name was Hinds and he had been nurtured in the gutters of Sydney . His talent for killing had soon earned him a post in the Native Mounted Police . Chambers was the senior man ...
... night . There was one who had only lately become a man . His name was Hinds and he had been nurtured in the gutters of Sydney . His talent for killing had soon earned him a post in the Native Mounted Police . Chambers was the senior man ...
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... night person myself . See you whenever . ' She turned quickly and pranced across to the tap at the end of the hose . ' Fuck you , Boy ! ' Boonger lifted himself back up into his seat . ' You shitting in your own nest , mate . Jelda find ...
... night person myself . See you whenever . ' She turned quickly and pranced across to the tap at the end of the hose . ' Fuck you , Boy ! ' Boonger lifted himself back up into his seat . ' You shitting in your own nest , mate . Jelda find ...
Common terms and phrases
arms bastard beer beneath Biamee Biamee's blood body Booka Roth Boonger Bora Ring boss Brisbane Bulley Bunda Bunyatt camp Ceddy close Coontown couple Cribb Island dark Darpil dingo door drink eyes face feel feet Fingal fingers Finlay Fleur floor forward friggin front fuck fuckin fullah going grabbed hand Hinds Jack Jarroo Jelda Jonjurrie kill Kobbina Koobara land Macow Mary mate migloo mind mission Mister moogi stone mouth Native Mounted Police never night Ningi Pinni poorie pulled Purnung pushed Rainbow Serpent reached Roth's sacred Sambo shit shook his head shoulder spirit Stephen stepped stood sure talk Tea-Pot thing told Tommy asked Tommy bowed Tommy Gubba Tommy knew Tommy looked Tommy nodded Tommy smiled Tommy walked Tommy's tonight took tribes trying turned Uluru voice waiting wall wallaby watched woman Worimi worry Yeah young Kadaitcha