Word: nawnim
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Such a mongrel was little Nawnim (No Name), half-caste son of Mark Shillingsworth. Father Mark spent his time between pearl diving, trepang fishing, debtors' jail, bouts with delirium tremens in the local hospital...
...kindly, conventional brother Oscar became a cattle grazier who remembered the lecture of an old combo: "Study the Binghi [aborigine], Oscar, and you'll find he's a different man from you in many ways, but in all ways quite as good." When six-year-old Nawnim, "hardened with food snatched from dogs and salted with sand and ants" was deserted by his father and delivered on Oscar's doorstep, howling and stinking, Uncle Oscar took...
Plenty Bandicoot. Nawnim became Norman, was sent to be educated in the caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...
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