Intercolonial

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] in 1858 I shipped on an intercolonial vessel, under engagement to proceed to the Swan River settlement.

These outlaws, [Mitford] Mathews infers, were groups of backwoodsmen who stole goods and perhaps even operated crime syndicates on an intercolonial scale. As the Cochrane fragment attests, crackers had reputations for being ill-mannered, arrogant, treacherous, and cruel, stealing from Indians and propertied white colonists alike.