"Six wild horses—warrigals or brombies, as they are called—have been driven down, corralled, and caught. They have fed on the leaves of the myall and stray bits of salt-bush. After a time they are got within the traces. They are all young, and they look not so bad."
1890. `The Argus, `June 14, p.4, col. 2:
"Mike will fret himself to death in a stable, and maybe kill the groom. Mike's a warrigal he is."
(3) Applied to <i>Aborigines</i>. [See Bunce quotation, 1859.]
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. xii. p. 249:
"He's a good shot, and these warrigal devils know it."
1896. Private Letter from Station near Palmerville, North Queensland:
"Warrigal. In this Cook district, and I believe in many others, a blackfellow who has broken any of the most stringent tribal laws, which renders him liable to be killed on sight by certain other blacks, is <i>warri</i>, an outlaw."
(4) As adjective meaning wild.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. viii. p. 68: