e bush remained untouched, but the universal
eucalyptus, which I had expected to find grey and monotonous,
was a Proteus it shape and colour, now branching like an oak
or a cork tree, now feathered like a birch, or glowing like
an arbutus with an endless variety of hue--green, orange,
and brown."

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right, c. v. p. 46:

"A lofty eucalyptus . . . lay with its bared roots sheer athwart
a tiny watercourse."

<hw>Euro</hw>, <i>n.</i> one of the aboriginal names for
a <i>Kangaroo</i> (q.v.); spelt also <i>Yuro</i>.

1885. Mrs. Praed, `Head Station,' p. 192:

"Above and below . . . were beetling cliffs, with ledges
and crannies that afforded foothold only to yuros and
rock-wallabies."

<hw>Exclusionist</hw>, <i>n.</i> and <i>adj</i>. See
quotation.

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,'
vol. ii. pp. 118-19:

". . . one subdivision of the emigrant class alluded to, is
termed the <i>exclusionist</i> party, from their strict
exclusion of the emancipists from their society."

<hw>Exileism</hw>, <i>n.</i> a word of same period as
<i>Exiles</i> (q.v.).

1893. A. P. Martin, `Life of Lord Sherbrooke,' vol. i. p. 381:

"A gentleman who was at this time engaged in pastoral pursuits
in New South Wales, and was therefore a supporter of exileism.'"

<hw>Exiles</hw>, <i>n.</i> euphemistic name for convicts. It
did not last long.

1847, A. P. Martin, `Life of Lord Sherbrooke' (1893),
vol. i. p. 378:

"The cargoes of criminals were no longer to be known as
`convicts,' but (such is the virtue in a name!) as `exiles.'
It was, as Earl Grey explained in his despatch of Sept 3, 1847,
`a scheme of reformatory discipline.'"

1852. G. B. Earp, `Gold Colonies of Australia,' p. 100:

"The convict system ceased in New South Wales in 1839; but
`exiles' as they were termed, i.e. men who had passed their
probation at home, were forwarded till 1843."

<hw>Expiree</hw>, <i>n.</i> a convict whose term of sentence
had expired.

1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (ed. 1885), p. 107:

"A hireling convict - emancipist, expiree, or ticket of leave."

<hw>Expiree</hw>, <i>adj</i>. See preceding.

1847. J. D. Lang, `Cooksland,' p. 271:

"Very many of their servants, being old hands or expiree
convicts from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, are
thoroughly unprincipled men."

1883. E. M. Curr, `Recollections of Squatting in
Victoria' (1841-1351), p. 40:

"Hiring men