"A native encampment, consisting of eight or ten `gunyers.' This is the native term for small huts, which are supported by three forked sticks (about three feet long) brought together at the top in a triangular form: the two sides towards the wind are covered by long sheets of bark, the third is always left open to the wind."
1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. I. c. ii. p. 78:
"We observed a fresh-made gunneah (or native hut)."
1839. T. L. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia,' c. ii. p. 35:
"Three huts, or gunyahs, consisted of a few green boughs, which had just been put up for shelter from the rain then falling."
1845. J. O. Balfour, `Sketch of New South Wales,' p. 10:
"Their only habitation . . . is formed by two sheets of bark stripped from the nearest tree, at the first appearance of a storm, and joined together at an angle of 45 degrees. This, which they call a gunnya, is cut up for firewood when the storm has passed."
1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 238:
"Behind appears a large piece of wood hooded like a `gunnya' or `umpee.'"
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 290: