Part 118 (1/2)

Humpy (Oompi)Queensland

Mia-miaVictoria and Western Australia

Wurley (Oorla)South Australia

WhareNew Zealand

1846 C P Hodgson, `Reunyia' 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 hutand 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 and his People,' p 135:

”Shon McGann was lying on a pile of buffalo robes in a mountain hut,--an Australian would call it a hury Quartz</hw>, n aQuartz (qv)

<hw>Huon-Pine</hw>, n a large Tasreen tree, Dacrydium franklinii, Hook, NO Coniferae The ti repellent to insects, durable, and fairly easy to work; certain pieces are beautifully marked, and resemble bird's-eye maple The Huon is a river in the south of Tasmania, called after a French officer See Pine

1800 J J Labillardiere, `Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse,' tom i, Introd p xi:

”Ces deux flutes recurent des noeneral, Dentrecasteaux, fut nommee la Recherche, et l'autre, commandee par le major de vaisseau, Huon Kermadec, recut le nom de l'Esperance

Bruny Dentrecasteaux [fut le] commandant de l'expedition, [et]

Labillardiere [fut le] naturaliste”

[Of these gentlee the names Bruni Island, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Recherche Bay, Port Esperance, Kermandie [sic] River, Huon Island, Huon River, perpetuate the memory in Southern Tasmania, and the Kermadec Islands in the Southern Ocean]

1820 C Jeffreys, RN, `Geographical and Descriptive Delineations of the Island of Van Diemen's Land,' p 28: