gus,' Oct. 23,
p. 5, col. 3:

"The despised old chum bought his swag, `humped it,' grumbled
of course."

1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 93:

"A hardwood slab-door weighs a goodish deal, as any one may
find out that has to hump it a hundred yards."

1893. Haddon Chambers, `Thumbnail Sketches of Australian
Life,' p. 224:

"I `humped my swag'--i.e. tied my worldly possessions,
consisting of a blanket, a pannikin, and an odd pair of boots,
upon my back-and `footed it' for the capital."

1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 134:

"But Bill preferred to hump his drum
A-paddin' of the hoof."

<hw>Hump</hw>, <i>n</i>. a long walk with a swag on one's back.

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. 3, p. 46:

"We get a fair share of exercise without a twenty-mile hump on
Sundays."

<hw>Humpy</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) a native hut. The aboriginal
word is Oompi; the initial h is a Cockney addition, and the
word has been given an English look, the appearance of the huts
suggesting the English word <i>hump</i>. [The forms
<i>himbing</i> and <i>yamba</i> occur along the East coast of
Australia. Probably it is kindred with <i>koombar</i>, bark,
in Kabi dialect, Mary River, Queensland.] The old convict
settlement in Moreton Bay, now broken up, was called Humpy Bong
(see <i>Bung</i>), sc. <i>Oompi Bong</i>, a dead or deserted
settlement. The aboriginal names for hut may be thus tabulated

Gunyah )
. . . New South Wales.
Goondie )

Humpy (Oompi) . . . Queensland.

Mia-mia . . . Victoria and Western Australia.

Wurley (Oorla) . . . South Australia.

Whare . . . New Zealand.

1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 228:

"A `gunyia' or `umpee.'"

1873. J. Brunton Stephens, `Black Gin,' p. 16:

"Lo, by the `humpy' door, a smockless Venus."

(2) Applied to a settler's house, very small and primitive.

1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 133:

"To dwell in the familiar old bark `humpy,' so full of happy
memories. The roof was covered with sheets of bark held down
by large wooden riders pegged in the form of a square to one
another."

1885. R. M. Praed, `Australian Life,' p. 57:

"A lonely hut . . . and a kitchen--a smaller humpey--at the
back."

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' p. 247:

"He's to bed in the humpy."

1893. Gilbert Parker, `Pierre an