Part 34 (1/2)

”Roast iven us to eat”

<hw>Bru various), n a wild horse The origin of this word is very doubtful Solish source In its present shape it figures in one aboriginal vocabulary, given in Curr's `Australian Race' (1887), vol iii p 259 At p 284, boorao in Queensland The use of the word seeo and the Balowne about 1864 Before that date, and in other parts of the bush ere the word came to them, wild horses were called clear-skins or scrubbers, whilst Yarrainal word for a quiet or broken horse A different origin was, however, given by an old resident of New South Wales, to a lady of the name of Brumby, viz ”that in the early days of that colony, a Lieutenant Brumby, as on the staff of one of the Governors, iood horses, and that so allowed to run wild became the ancestors the wild horses of New South Wales and Queensland”

Confirmation of this story is to be desired

1880 `The Australasian,' Dec 4, p 712, col 3:

”Passing through a belt ofon the plains beyond These our guide pronounced to be `brumbies,' the bush name here [Queensland]

for wild horses”

1888 Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol ii p 176:

”The wild horses of this continent known all over it by the Australian name of `brumbies'”

Ibid p 178:

”The unta, `Plain Tales fro about the country, with an Australian larrikin; a `brumby' with as much breed as the boyPeople who lost money on him called him a `brumby'”

1888 Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms' p 67:

”The three-cornered weed he rode that had been a `bru `Australian Brumbie Horses':

”The brumbie horse of Australia, tho' not a distinct equine variety, possesses attributes and qualities peculiar to itself, and, like the wild cattle and wild buffaloes of Australia, is the descendant of runaways of i Herald,' (Letter frost the blacks on the Lower Balonne, Nebine, Warrego, and Bulloo rivers the word used for horse is `baroo cut so short that the word sounds as `broooes refers more to unbroken horses in distinction to quiet or broken ones (`yarraman')”

1896 H Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p 156:

”Yet at tiallop where the reckless bush for their hides”

<hw>Brush</hw>, n at first undergrowth, ser tirowth and forest trees Its earlier sense survives in the compound words; see below

1820 Oxley, `New South Wales' (`OED'):

”The tirowth”

1833 C Sturt, `Southern Australia,' (2nd ed) vol i p 62:

”We journeyedat one tih brushes”

1848 J Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol i Introd p 77:

”Jungle, or what in New South Wales would be called brush”