native companion
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of native companion
First recorded in 1810–20
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Malcolm understood instantly that his native companion had found the ekka-wallah more communicative.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
Several small swamps were passed during the day, on which ducks and other water-fowl were very numerous, the stately native companion stalking near the margins.
From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Frederick J. Byerley
The woods astonished my native companion Yuranigh; who remarked that they were trees belonging to the sea coast at Sydney.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
Another bird that was seen by our friends, but not captured, is the one known as the native companion.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Thomas Wallace Knox
The imitation of the frolicsome skip and wing movements of the native companion is one of the typical dances of the aboriginals frequenting open plains where the great birds assemble.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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