1865. W. Howitt, `Discovery in Australia,' vol. ii. p. 233:
"Immediately went across to the blacks' wurleys, where I found
King sitting in a but which the natives had made for him."
1879. G. Taplin, `Native Tribes of South Australia,' p. 12, and Note:
"In case of a man having two wives, the elder is always regarded as the mistress of the hut or wurley. The word <i>wurley</i> is from the language of the Adelaide tribe. The Narrinyeri word is <i>mante</i>. I have used `wurley' because it is more generally understood by the colonists."
1880. P. J. Holdsworth, `Station Hunting on the Warrego':
"`My hand
Must weather-fend the wurley'. This he did.
He bound the thick boughs close with bushman's skill,
Till not a gap was left where raging showers
Or gusts might riot. Over all he stretched
Strong bands of cane-grass, plaited cunningly."
1886. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 42
"He took
His axe, and shaped with boughs and wattle-forks
A wurley, fashioned like a bushman's roof."