Austral English Part 107
[p. 200]: "Guneah." [p. 558]: "Gunneah." [p. 606]: "Gunyah."
1860. G.Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p. 114 [Footnote]:
"The name given by the natives to the burrow or habitation of any animals is `guniar,' and the same word is applied to our houses."
1880. P. J. Holdsworth, `Station, Hunting':
"hunger clung Beneath the bough-piled gunyah."
1885. R. M. Praed, `Australian Life,' p. 19:
"The sleepy blacks came out of their gunyahs." [p. 52]: "A gunya of branches."
1890. Lyth, `Golden South,' c. ii. p. 16:
"Where this beautiful building now stands, there were only the gunyahs or homes of the poor savages."
1890. A. J. Vogan, `Black Police,' p. 98:
"One of the gunyahs on the hill... . The hut, which is exactly like all the others in the group,--and for the matter of that all within two or three hundred miles,--is built of sticks, which have been stuck into the ground at the radius of a common centre, and then bent over so as to form an egg-shaped cage, which is substantially thatched on top and sides with herbage and mud."
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1877. F. von Muller, `Botanic Teachings,' p. 106:
"The similarity of both [S. vesc.u.m and S.aviculare] to each other forbids to recommend the fruit of the Gunyang as edible."
1878. W. R. Guilfoyle, `Australian Botany,' p. 73:
"Kangaroo Apple, Solanum aviculare... . The Gunyang (Solanum vesc.u.m) is another variety found in Victoria."
1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 222:
"A couple of tiny streams trickle across the plains to the sea, a dwarfed ti-tree, clinging low about the ground, like the gunyang or kangaroo apple, borders the banks."
(q.v.).
, Richards.
in Australian goldmining, "the lower and auriferous part of the channel of an old river of the Tertiary period " (`Century'). "The lowest portion of a lead.
A gutter is filled with auriferous drift or washdirt, which rests on the palaeozoic bed-rock." (Brough Smyth, `Glossary of Mining Terms.')
1864. J. Rogers, `New Rush,' p. 55:
"Duffers are so common And golden gutters rare."
1871. J. J. Simpson, `Recitations,' p. 23:
"Privations and hardships you all have to suffer Ere you can expect to get on to the gutter."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. viii. p. 81:
"If we happened to drop right down on the `gutter' or main course of the lead, we were all right."
1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p.23:
"The Company ... are putting in a drive to strike the old Shakspeare gutter."
1891. `The Australasian,' Nov. 21, p. 1015:
"Evidently both claims had been driving for a `gutter.' One of them had got to the end of its tether before reaching it."
Flags fixed on the surface to denote where the course of a gutter or lead underground has been discovered." (Brough Smyth, `Glossary of Mining Terms.')
a stone tomahawk of the aborigines.
Gweh-un, in Mukthang language, Gippsland. Apparently a remnant of a term occurring along the east side of Australia; Burgoin, New South Wales; bulgoon and balgon, Burdekin River, Queensland; related to balgoungo, to chop.
, the Flying-Phalanger or Squirrel.)
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is known as the "Hake."
is the verb. It has been colloquially adopted.
1769. J. Hawkesworth, `Voyages,' vol. iii. p. 229 (ed. 1785):
"When they came near enough to be heard, they waved their hands, and called out `Horomai.' These ceremonies we were told were certain signs of their friendly disposition."
1832. `Henry Williams' Journal,' in H. Carleton's `Life of Henry Williams,' p. 112:
"After breakfast we went to them all; they were very glad to see us, and gave us the usual welcome, `Haeremai! Haeremai!'"
1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' p. 249:
"As I ascended the steep hill with my train, scarcely any greeting was addressed to me, no shouts of haeremai, so universal a welcome to the stranger, were to be heard."
1863. F. E. Maning (The Pakeha-Maori ), `Old New Zealand,' p. 14:
"The boat nears the sh.o.r.e, and now arises from a hundred voices the call of welcome, `Haere mai! haere mai! hoe mai!' Mats, hands, and certain ragged petticoats all waving in the air in sign of welcome. Then a pause. Then, as the boat came nearer, another burst of haere mai! But unaccustomed as I was then to the Maori salute, I disliked the sound. There was a wailing, melancholy cadence that did not strike me as being the appropriate note of welcome."
1867. F. Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' (English edition) p. 438: