a Queensland timber-tree,Ptychosperma normanbyi, F. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discoveryand Exploration of Australia,' vol. 44: A small pannikin full of gold dust. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for the Mail,' p.
The whole mass of thebark is readily stripped from the tree. The kernels when dried and stuck on a reed areused by the Polynesian Islanders as a substitute for candles,and as an article of food in New Georgia. a bundle; more usually calleda swag (q. The first spelling isthat under which the aboriginal name now survives in English,and is the name by which the bird is generally called in Sydney.
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