ampier, `Voyage to New Holland,' vol. iii. p. 123] as `a
sort of raccoon, different from that of the West Indies,
chiefly as to the legs; for these have very short fore legs;
but go jumping upon them' [not upon the short fore, but the
long hind legs, it is to be presumed] `as the others do; and
like them are very good meat.' This appears to have been the
small kangaroo, since found upon the islands which form the
road; and if so, this description is probably the first ever
made of that singular animal" [though without the name].

1820. W. C. Wentworth, `Description of New South Wales,'
p. 57:

"Coursing the kangaroo and emu forms the principal amusement
of the sporting part of the colonists.

(p. 68): The colonists generally pursue this animal [kangaroo]
at full speed on horseback, and frequently manage,
notwithstanding its extraordinary swiftness, to be up at the
death."

1833. Charles Lamb, `Essays of Elia' [edition 1895], p. 151,
`Distant Correspondents':

"The kangaroos--your Aborigines--do they keep their primitive
simplicity un-Europe-tainted, with those little short fore
puds, looking like a lesson framed by nature to the
pick-pocket! Marry, for diving into fobs they are rather
lamely provided <i>a priori</i>; but if the hue and cry were
once up, they would show as fair a pair of hind-shifters as the
expertest loco motor in the colony."

1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. I. c. iii. p. 106:

"Those that were noticed were made of the red kangaroo-skin."

1834. L. E. Threlkeld, `Australian Grammar of the Language
spoken by the Aborigines, at Hunter's River,' p. 87:

"Kong-go-rong, The Emu, from the noise it makes, and likely
the origin of the barbarism, kangaroo, used by the English, as
the name of an animal, called Mo-a-ne."

1835. T. B. Wilson, `Narrative of a Voyage round the World,
etc.' p. 212:

"They [natives of the Darling Range, W.A.] distinctly
pronounced `kangaroo' without having heard any of us utter that
sound: they also called it <i>waroo</i>, but whether they
distinguished `kangaroo' (so called by us, and also by them)
from the smaller kind, named `<i>wallabi</i>,' and by them
`<i>waroo</i>,' we could not form any just conclusion."

1845. J. O. Balfour, `Sketch of New South Wales,' p. 23:

"Kangaroos are of six different species, viz. the forester,
the flyer, the wallaby, the wallaroo, the kangaroo-rat,
and the kangaroo-mouse."
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