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Nanbari

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Nān-bar-ee
English JS Main: 
Nanbari
English: 
Fish were produced, to tempt him to eat; but he turned away his head, with signs of loathing. Nan-bar-ee (the boy), on the contrary, no sooner saw them than he leaped from his cradle, and eagerly seizing them, began to cook them.
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
147
Line: 
28
Respelt: 
Nan-bari
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1793
Meaning Clue: 
‘mambara’ mambara = ‘Jeebung’: Mathews DG 1901 [159.2:16] [DG] ‘Mambara’ mambara = ‘Jibong’: French Catalogue, 1855 [xxx:115.2] [DWL] ‘Nââmbžrra’: nambara = ‘Jibong’: French Catalogue, 1855 [11:115] [SOUTH]
Source Details: 
Captain Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791 (1793): Republished at Sydney’s First Four Years (1961), Library of Australian History

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