1852. Letter from Mrs. Perry, given in Canon Goodman's Church in Victoria during Episcopate of Bishop Perry,' p. 167:
"We came upon the largest (deserted) native encampment we had ever seen. One of the mia-mias (you know what that is by this time—the <i>a</i> is not sounded) was as large as an ordinary sized circular summer-house, and actually had rude seats all round, which is quite unusual. It had no roof, they never have, being mere break-weathers, not so high as a man's shoulder."
1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 366:
"They constructed a mimi, or bower of boughs on the other, leaving portholes amongst the boughs towards the road."
1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria,' c. vii. p. 96:
"Their thoughts wandered to their hunting-grounds and mia-mias on the Murray."
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 15:
[Notice varied spelling in the same author.] "Many of the diggers resided under branches of trees made into small `miams' or `wigwams.'"
1871. C. L. Money, `Knocking About in New Zealand,' p. 42:
"The next day I began building a little `mi-mi,' to serve as a resting-place for the night in going back at any time for supplies."