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Narrative of the Voyage of the Brig Carl choose

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[Aus] Narrative of the Voyage of the Brig Carl [pamphlet] They were going to take a cruise round the islands ‘black-bird’ catching.
at blackbird, n.1
[Aus] Narrative of the Voyage of the Brig Carl [pamphlet] All the three methods, however, of obtaining labour in the South Seas [...] were in use the same time, and all three went by the same general slang term of ‘blackbirding,’ or ‘blackbird catching.’.
at blackbirding, n.
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