Part 19 (2/2)

was a common label on tins of preserved meat in shi+p's stores

These tins, called ”bully-tins,” were used by diggers and others as the ives as the origin the aboriginal word billa (river or water)

1835 T B Wilson, `Voyage Round the World,' p 238:

”An e the double purpose of tea-kettle and tea-pot”

[The word billy is not used, but its origin is described]

1857 W Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol i p 202:

”A tin pan bearing the familiar name of a billy”

1871 J J Siet a billy full for many a mile round”

1881 A C Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol i p 41:

”A billy (that is a round tin pitcher with a lid) in his hand”

1889 Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol iv p 69:

”A tin can, which the connoisseurs call for some reason or other a `billy'”

1890 Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' p 24:

”A very black camp-kettle, or billy, of hot tea”

1892 `The Australasian,' April 9, p 707, col 4:

”Hoe praised the simple supper (we prepared it each in turn), And the tea! Ye Gods! 'twas nectar

Yonder billy was our urn”

<hw>Billy-can</hw>, n a variation of the above, more used by townsmen than bushmen

1892 `The Australasian,' April 9, p 707, col 4:

”But I said, `Dear friend and brother, yonder billy-can ison the line, You may depredate the larder, take your choice of pot and pan; But, I pray thee, kind sundowner, spare, oh spare, soft], n stoinal The form at Botany Bay was bindi; at Jervis Bay, binji

1851 Rev David Mackenzie, `Ten Years in Australia,' p 140:

”They lay rolling the in pain, and with their hands rubbing their bellies, exclaiee' (that is, I am very sick in the stomach)”

<hw>Birch</hw>, n In New Zealand, the trees called birches are really beeches (qv), but the teruely; see quotation 1889 In Tasmania, the name is applied to Dodonaea ericifolia, Don, NO