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Santalaceae. 71: The laughing jackass, or settler's-clock is an uncouth lookingcreature of an ashen brown colour . Swagsman, n. These pipes were a substitutefor the newspaper, and the fear of satire checked thehaughtiness of power.

The Trepang,or be^che-de-mer, eaten by the Chinese, belongs to them. 96: The species of fish that are commonest in the Bay (Moreton)are mullet, bream, puddinba (a native word corrupted by thecolonists into pudding-ball) . The phrase is of course used elsewhere, but its Australian useis peculiar. The species, nearly 100 in number [Maiden's index to`Useful Native Plants' gives sixteen], are all evergreenshrubs, or small trees, with alternate coriaceous, variouslylobed, often spiny leaves.