Moselep `Notes by Naturalist on Challenger,p. used specifically for aSwagman, a Sundowner. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. 160: They will pick up anything, thimbles, reels of cotton, nails,bullets indiscriminately: and thus the proverb of `having thedigestion of an emu' has its origin.
[Old and now unused slang. Sladen, p. See chapter on Mana,in `Old New Zealand' (1863), by Judge Maning. 46: One of the most common terms used by explorers is `Mallee'scrub, so called from its being composed of dwarf species ofEucalyptus, called `Mallee' by the natives.
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