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They there met with some blacks who had seen the white man's track in the bed of the river, and made the searchers understand that he had gone to the west with the "Myall" [Wild blacks who had not visited the settlements.] blackfellows.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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A special mention must also go to Coventry City's then known as Singer's FC FA Cup match with Burton Swifts in 1892, as Joe Myall explains.
The Knowledge | Has anyone ever erected a statue of a player younger than Thierry Henry? 2012
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I can ride anything — anything that ever was lapped in horsehide — swim like a musk-duck, and track like a Myall blackfellow.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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Late in the afternoon we reached a watercourse, which I had previously named “Myall Ponds,” [Note 4: Myall is in some parts of New Holland, the native name for the Acacia pendula.] from the many and beautiful Acacia pendula trees that grew upon its banks.
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Wild boy — boy from outside; Myall — beggar that fella — longa gully.
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A comely half-caste who, as a child, had been partially civilised by a stockman's wife on one of the Leura out-stations, but who had, later, gone back to her tribe and married a Myall, as the wild blacks are called.
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'And look here, Harry, you can tell them at the Myall Creek out-station as you go by, to have two good horses ready in the yard for me.
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Myall: An Aborigine living according to tradition; wild; any of several types of wattle trees (genus Acacia).
Saltbush Bill, J. P. 1902
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I accordingly took them as guides, and on the evening of the 6th they informed me they could see the smoke from the fires of the Myall blacks, on the borders of a lake called Budda.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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Still John Mangles discovered on the skirts of the shore evident traces of camping, remains of fires recently kindled under solitary Myall-trees.
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