ere she stood in a perfect state of nudity, a little way
from the road, by her miam, smiling, or rather grimacing."

1852. Letter from Mrs. Perry, given in Canon Goodman's Church
in Victoria during Episcopate of Bishop Perry,' p. 167:

"We came upon the largest (deserted) native encampment we had
ever seen. One of the mia-mias (you know what that is by this
time--the <i>a</i> is not sounded) was as large as an ordinary
sized circular summer-house, and actually had rude seats all
round, which is quite unusual. It had no roof, they never
have, being mere break-weathers, not so high as a man's
shoulder."

1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 366:

"They constructed a mimi, or bower of boughs on the other,
leaving portholes amongst the boughs towards the road."

1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria,' c. vii. p. 96:

"Their thoughts wandered to their hunting-grounds and mia-mias
on the Murray."

1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 15:

[Notice varied spelling in the same author.]
"Many of the diggers resided under branches of trees made into
small `miams' or `wigwams.'"

1871. C. L. Money, `Knocking About in New Zealand,' p. 42:

"The next day I began building a little `mi-mi,' to serve
as a resting-place for the night in going back at any time
for supplies."

1883. E. M. Curr, `Recollections of Squatting in Victoria'
(1841-1851), p. 148:

"Of the mia-mias, some were standing; others had, wholly
or in part, been thrown down by their late occupants."

1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 32:

"A few branches thrown up against the prevailing wind,
in rude imitation of the native mia-mia."

1889. Rev. J. H. Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p. 111:

"[The blacks] would compel [the missionaries] to carry their
burdens while travelling, or build their mia-mias when halting
to camp for the night; in fact, all sorts of menial offices had
to be discharged by the missionaries for these noble black men
while away on the wilds!"

[Footnote]: "Small huts, made of bark and leafy boughs, built
so as to protect them against the side from which the wind
blew."

<hw>Micky</hw>, <i>n</i>. young wild bull. "Said to have
originated in Gippsland, Victoria. Probably from the
association of bulls with Mickeys, or Irishmen." (Barere and
Leland.)

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xviii.
p. 217:

"The wary and still more dangerously sudden `Micky,'
a two-year-old bull."