36 BEACH-LA-MAR. 
blackfellow the aboriginal. 
too much gammon blackfellow. Ro 
253. 
This, the common Australian desig- 
nation of the aborigines of that 
continent, seems to be employed in 
Beach-la-mar less frequently; the 
foregoing is the only instance of its 
use which I have found in print. 
Nigger is equally rare. 
blackman the aboriginal. 
big fella marster belong blackman: 
chief. L 359. 
Baron von Hesse-Wartegg (53) cites 
the description of a kanaka clad in 
white as ‘‘whitefellow blackman.”’ 
As a globe-trotter and a German 
he lost the sense of the impropriety 
in this collocation; it would go 
hard, and that very suddenly, 
with a kanaka whose vocabulary 
included this expression within the 
hearing of a plantation overseer. 
blood blood, sap of trees. 
he full up blood he kill him. Se 563. 
bloody strong qualification. 
I bloody fool. V 253. 
a bloody rogue. V 253. 
This, expletive in Austral English and 
regarded as such profanity as calls 
for the awesome dash in print, is 
not even intensive in Beach-la-mar; 
the same characterization holds in 
respect of damn, which is alto- 
gether milder than bloody in 
Colonial speech. The employment 
of profanity, even the most shock- 
ing, by the kanaka is innocent and 
imitative; his habit of mind finds 
no joy in curt damns, objurgation 
with him is a protracted, a complete 
and altogether a _ soul-satisfying 
art not lightly to be shorn of its 
patiently evolved finish. 
boat boat, ship. 
me savvee look out along boat. 
1) 36%. 
This is used only of foreign boats, the 
island craft being invariably canoe 
or of some dialectic form of vaka. 
boil a rare process in island cookery. 
belong boil yam. 132. 
Commonly no attempt at differenti- 
ation is made and cook covers all 
culinary processes. 
bone bone, stone. 
my bone creaked; bone along me 
slew: to be bewitched. V 252. 
he oo bone got no meat: to be thin. 
254. 
he take one fella bone belong him and 
he make’m one fella mary along 
bone. L 363. 
no good garden, too much bone: 
stony ground. 
boom boom, sprit, gaff. 
that fella boom he walk about too 
much. L 360. 
boss a modern Australian contribution. 
master; to order about. V 253. 
both in dual sense. 
me Sandfly both speak. W 373. 
This is the only instance I have found 
of both; in classic Beach-la-mar 
this dual would be expressed ‘‘me 
Sandfly two fellow speak.”’ 
bottle see square-face. 
cooky fetch one fellow bottle some- 
thing makee cold. HW 97. 
box case, chest, trunk. 
big fellow bokus you fight him he cry: 
piano. 
little fellow bokus you shove him he 
cry, you pull him he cry: accordeon 
or concertina. 
woman leg you got in one fellow box. 
G 260. 
bokkis belong bell. L 361, 364. 
boy the use of boy regardless of age is char- 
acteristic wherever the English 
dominate a less assertive race. 
I. a general term for man. 
yee es out belong boy belong me. 
29. 
some boy he get him spear. Se 560. 
plenty boy die. W 349, 15. 
boy belong island. W 373. 
2.in the common English sense. 
he small boy: a foolish man. V 253. 
bread sea-biscuit or other. crackers; soft 
bread is not wholly practicable in 
island life, but where it is known 
it is called falaoa (flour). 
break out that bread: open that tin 
of biscuit. 
break to smash, to come to pieces. 
I. in the intransitive sense. 
head belong him he break plenty. 
G 198. 
yam he break very quick suppose you 
no put him down very good. G 
237. 
2. transitive. 
my word, cappen, that fellow break 
plenty match: the kanaka com- 
ment at first sight of a revolving 
lighthouse. W 97. 
break out that bread: open that tin 
of biscuit. This (the sailor breaks 
out cargo) is used only of the larger 
containers, 
broke 
I. intransitive. 
cappen he broke 
2. transitive. 
man Sandwich make big wind, big 
wind broke ship belonga me. 
W 97. 
144. 
bring I do not recall the word, the sense is 
far more commonly expressed by 
the locution you take him he come. 
brother brother, sister, cousin; in some 
places all persons born in the same 
year, as determined by the yam 
harvest, are brothers. 
they like brother: to be friendly. 
Vo2en. 
