(p. 8): "The nearest scrub, in the thickets of which the Blacks could always find an impenetrable stronghold."
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 36:
"A most magnificent forest of trees, called in Australia a `scrub,' to distinguish it from open timbered country."
1890. J. McCarthy and R. M. Praed, `Ladies' Gallery,' p. 252:
"Why, I've been alone in the scrub—in the desert, I mean; you will understand that better."
1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 374:
"One more prominent feature in Australian vegetation are the large expanses of the so-called `scrub' of the colonists. This is a dense covering of low bushes varying in composition in different districts, and named according to the predominating element."
1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' vol. i. p. 46:
"Just as Tartary is characterised by its steppes, America by its prairies, and Africa by its deserts, so Australia has one feature peculiar to itself, and that is its `scrubs.'. . . One of the most common terms used by explorers is `Mallee' scrub, so called from its being composed of dwarf species of Eucalyptus called the `Mallee' by the Natives. . . . Still more dreaded by the explorer is the `Mulga' scrub, consisting chiefly of dwarf acacias."
1894. E. Favenc, `Tales of the Austral Tropics,' p. 3: