FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136  
137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   >>   >|  
1893. Professor Gosman, `The Argus,' April 24, p. 7, col. 4: "Banks might fail, but the treasures of thought could never go `bung.'" 1893. `The Herald' (Melbourne), April 25, p. 2, col. 4: "Perhaps Sydney may supply us with a useful example. One member of the mischief-making brotherhood wrote the words `gone bung' under a notice on the Government Savings Bank, and he was brought before the Police Court charged with damaging the bank's property to the extent of 3d. The offender offered the Bench his views on the bank, but the magistrates bluntly told him his conduct was disgraceful, and fined him L 3 with costs, or two months' imprisonment." <hw>Bunga</hw> or <hw>Bungy</hw>, <i>n</i>. a New Zealand settlers' corruption of the Maori word <i>punga</i> (q.v.). <hw>Bunt</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Queensland fungus growing on wheat, fetid when crushed. <i>Tilletia caries</i>, Tul., <i>N.O. Fungi</i>. <hw>Bunya-Bunya</hw>, <i>n</i>. aboriginal word. [<i>Bunyi</i> at heads of Burnett, Mary, and Brisbane rivers, Queensland; <i>baanya</i>, on the Darling Downs.] An Australian tree, <i>Araucaria bidwillii</i>, Hooker, with fruit somewhat like <i>Bertholletia excelsa</i>, <i>N.O. Coniferae</i>. Widgi-Widgi station on the Mary was the head-quarters for the fruit of this tree, and some thousands of blacks used to assemble there in the season to feast on it; it was at this assembly that they used to indulge in cannibalism ; every third year the trees were said to bear a very abundant crop. The Bunya-Bunya mountains in Queensland derive their name from this tree. 1843. L. Leichhardt, Letter in `Cooksland, by J. D. Lang, p. 82: "The bunya-bunya tree is noble and gigantic, and its umbrella-like head overtowers all the trees of the bush." 1844. Ibid. p. 89: "The kernel of the Bunya fruit has a very fine aroma, and it is certainly delicious eating." 1844. `Port Phillip Patriot,' July 25: "The Bunya-Bunya or <i>Araucaria</i> on the seeds of which numerous tribes of blacks are accustomed to feed." 1879. W. R. Guilfoyle, `First Book of Australian Botany,' p. 58: "A splendid timber tree of South Queensland, where it forms dense forests, one of the finest of the Araucaria tribe, attaining an approximate height of 200 feet. The Bunya-Bunya withstands drought better than most of the genus, and flourishes luxuriantly in and around Melbourne." 1887. J. Mathew, in Curr's `Australian Race,' vol. iii. p. 161
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136  
137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150   151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
Queensland
 

Araucaria

 

Australian

 

blacks

 

Melbourne

 
umbrella
 
overtowers
 

gigantic

 
Herald
 

delicious


eating

 

kernel

 
Cooksland
 

cannibalism

 
indulge
 

Perhaps

 
assembly
 
Leichhardt
 

Letter

 

abundant


mountains

 

derive

 

Phillip

 

Patriot

 

withstands

 

drought

 

height

 

approximate

 

finest

 

attaining


Mathew

 
flourishes
 

luxuriantly

 

forests

 

accustomed

 
tribes
 

numerous

 
Guilfoyle
 

timber

 
splendid

Botany
 

season

 
months
 
brotherhood
 

conduct

 

disgraceful

 
imprisonment
 

mischief

 
corruption
 

settlers