"A more intimate acquaintance with the ways and customs of the whites had produced a certain amount of contempt for them among the myalls."
1882. A. J. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 209:
"I had many conversations with native police officers on the subject of the amelioration of the wild myalls."
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 150:
"Suddenly he became aware that half-a-dozen of these `myalls,' as they are called, were creeping towards him through the long grass. Armed with spears and boomerangs . . ."
1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 76:
"These so-called civilized blacks look upon their savage brethren with more or less contempt, and call them myall."
[Footnote]: "A tree (<i>Acacia pendula</i>) which grows extensively in the less civilized districts is called by the Europeans <i>myall</i>. This word was soon applied by the whites as a term for the wild blacks who frequented these large remote <i>myall</i> woods. Strange to say, the blacks soon adopted this term themselves, and used it as an epithet of abuse, and hence it soon came to mean a person of no culture."
1893. M. Gaunt, `English Illustrated,' March, p. 367:
"He himself had no faith in the myall blacks; they were treacherous, they were cruel."