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Inhabits rocky shores, and is not common. Specimen caught by the hook, on the 4th April, 1841. Good eating. No. 21. HELOTES? Native names, BOORA, BOWRU, also CHARLUP. The "Pokey," or "small Trumpeter" of the sealers. "Rays, D. 11 1-11; A. 2-11; etc." Inhabits rocky places. Good to eat. Caught by the seine, on the 3rd March, 1841. No. 24. CHEILODACTYLUS GIBBOSUS. Solander. Icon. Ined. Banks.
She goes up to the old lubra with a look of divine compassion on her beautiful face; the old woman's whine grows louder as she rocks herself to and fro. "Yah marah, Yah boorah, Oh boora Yah! Yah Ma!" "What! old Sally!" says the beautiful girl. "What is the matter? Have you been getting waddy again?" "Baal!" says she, with a petulant burst of grief. "What is it, then?" says Alice.
But Maui, who seems to be a general Polynesian figure, is rather a culture-hero than a god, though his achievements were of a very serious sort. The Tapa of the Borneo Land Dyaks, and the Boora Pennu of the Khonds may be regarded as real gods.
I rounded up the myalls outside the boora ground, only half an hour after you had left, and one of the bucks whom I dropped with a bullet through his thigh told me what had occurred, when Sandy and Daylight were just about to fight. How is Miss Carolan?" "Well. She is sleeping. Take a peg," and he handed Lamington his brandy flask.
"Oh, God, to think that I left her! to look after horses," Grainger said bitterly to himself as he followed Jacky, who little knew how dear Sheila was to the heart of his "boss." Swiftly but cautiously Jacky led the way through the scrub until they came to the margin of the boora ground, and then Grainger saw twenty or thirty blacks seated on the ground in a circle, spears and waddies in hand.
"Boss," whispered Jacky, "which feller you want to take?" "I'll take the big man with the beard," said Grainger, as he drew up his Winchester. "All right, boss! I take the other man that's Daylight. But don't shoot until they walk across boora ground, and turn and face each other. * Stomach.
* A place which the Australian aborigines use for their corroborées and certein religious rites. "Where was she?" said Grainger, whose heart was thumping fiercely as, rifle in hand, he sprang to his feet. "In the middle of the boora ground. She sit up, but all the same as if she sleep -eyes shut."
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