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The settlers quickly discovered that knowledge of Dharuk (the Aboriginal language spoken in Sydney) was of no help to them in communicating with the local Aborigines—unless the Aborigines had learned words from the settlers in the belief that they were English, as indeed happened with some pidgin terms and, in the west, with boomerang .
Australian Aborigines of the 19 th century, according to one chronicler, made it a point "to massacre all strangers who fall into their power."
All of which seems narracoupa `very good' considering the strenuous efforts made during the Black War of 1831 to disperse the Tasmanian Aborigines.
He suggested that it was a transferred use of the Queensland Aboriginal word for a particularly noisy bird and that the connection was made by percipient Aborigines who applied it first to the German missionaries of 1838, having noted their garrulousness.
One will have noticed that there has been no reference to the indigenous inhabitants-- the Indians, natives, Papuans, Blacks, or Aborigines, as they were variously named.