Birds, Animals, and Botany he sub-edited for me, and much ofthe value of this part of the Book, which is almost anEncyclopaed South Australian slang for a longdrink of beer, so-called (it is said) because the men of acertain butchery in Adelaide used this refreshment regularly;cf. 612: E-lee-mong-shield made of bark. The word scrub occurs constantly in composition.
Wentworth, `Description of New South Wales,'p. 227 [Stanford]: During the whole of our stay two minahs were talking mostincessantly. an average tree has a height of about200ft. 238: Behind appears a large piece of wood hooded like a `gunnya'or `umpee.
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