A collective term used primarily by Tench to describe the indigenous people of Port Jackson.
In the story
The words had, however, hardly gone forth, when the Indian, stepping back with one foot, aimed his lance with such force and dexterity, that striking the governor's right shoulder, just above the collar-bone, the point glancing downward, came out at his back, having made a wound of many inches long.
From Abduction
I pulled to them, and found that Baneelon, and another Indian, were in one of the boats, and that the whole formed a party going over to visit the governor.
From Settlement
See also: Glossary of people, places and words · Bennelong’s family