wood natives

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

or Wood Savages


obsolete names for the Australian aborigines.

1817. O'Hara, `History of New South Wales,' p. 161:

«. . . robbed by a number of the inland or wood natives . . .»

Ibid. p. 201:

«The combats of the natives near Sydney were sometimesattended by parties of the inland or wood savages.»

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