Crossword-Solution: BOREE 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Overloading at Boree, unskilful driving, excessive heat, and want of water, had contributed to render the bullocks unserviceable, and I already contemplated the organization of a lighter party and fewer men, with which I might go forward at a better rate, leaving the heavy articles of equipment and tired cattle in a depôt, on some good grassy spot.

Continue unwell and in low spirits, or as the Negroes say, am possessed by the _Boree_ ("blue devils.") Days are short, and nights tedious and painful to me, as I cannot use my eyes by lamp-light, on account of a slight continued ophthalmia.

Have been suffering from "The Boree." Such a variety of discouraging influences press upon the mind, that it is very difficult to keep it buoyant.

One young woman acted various grotesque characters, and, amongst the rest, _Boree_, "The Devil." When a Negro sulks, or is moody, he is said to be possessed, or to have got in him _Boree_, which agrees pretty well with our "_Blue-devils_." In these evening pastimes they fancy themselves in the wild woods of their native homes, and dance and sing to the rude notes of their ruder instruments of music, and feel as if free and like other mortals.

Called boree by aboriginals, and often boree, or silver-leaf boree, by the colonists of Western New South Wales.