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Updated: June 1, 2025
About two hours after camping, whilst the party were engaged in digging trenches round them, and otherwise preparing for an impending thunder-storm, the black-boy that was tailing the cattle, came running into the camp in great excitement, with the news that the natives that had been seen in the morning, had hunted him and were now running the horses, so half the party immediately turned out in pursuit.
However, you can order her out if you don't want her. There's Maggie and I'm sending Ninnis back to-night. 'When are you coming home? 'I can't say. I've got things to do and to think about. His words and his manner seemed to convey a sinister meaning. 'I see you are angry about the black-boy. If you want to know I will tell you exactly what happened.
He is stoutly built, however, and would measure better in a horizontal direction. You may notice that he is of a yellow complexion, although his name might lead you to fancy he was black for "Swartboy" means "black-boy."
The party, besides the leader, consisted of his cousin, C. F. Wells, G. A. Keartland, G. L. Jones, another white man as cook, two Afghans, and one black-boy, with twenty-five camels. A collection of the flora and fauna was to be made, as well as a map of the country passed through.
Macpherson, too, poked out beyond Coolgardie, and nearly lost his life in returning, and, indeed, was saved by his black-boy, who held him on the only remaining horse. Other instances could be given, all of which show that Nature will not be bustled, and will only divulge her secrets when the ordained time has arrived.
Her Irish temper rose at the thought that Mrs Hensor might be giving him her version of the Wombo episode. She felt glad that the black-boy and his gin were comfortably sleeping off the effect of their wounds, and of the plentiful meals supplied them in the hide-house, and thus were not in evidence. When McKeith spoke, it was in a dictatorial, angry tone that of the incensed master.
I won't bother you with all that though, truly, I tell you, it's the nearest touch with the Infinite I'VE ever known.... Lord! I remember the first night I camped right in the Bush me rolled in my blanket on one side of the fire, and Leura-Jim the black-boy on the other.
'Seems to me, Mr McKeith, that it's you who are well, damned queer about this affair. I'm sure I don't know what you've got to laugh at. But if you've found out who let the black-boy out of the hide-house, I'd be glad to know, that's all. McKeith ceased from his mirthless laughing and his sarcastic bluff.
Colonel Warburton, with a party of four white men, two Afghans, and one black-boy, left Central Australia, in 1873 to cross to the western coast. This he succeeded in doing after fearful hardships and sufferings, entailing the death of sixteen out of seventeen camels, the temporary failure of his eyesight, and the permanent loss of one eye.
'Colin, you are unjust all round. You were very unjust to Wombo. Why shouldn't the poor black-boy marry as well as you or anyone else? McKeith gave a hard laugh. 'I'm not preventing him from marrying. I only said I wasn't going to have his gin on my station. 'You wouldn't listen when he told you that he didn't dare go back to his tribe because his gin's husband threatened to kill him.
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