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bush

Language: 
Dharug Darkinyung
Australian: 
Tuggatugga
English JS Main: 
bush
Category: 
flora: bush
Source: 
McGarvie, Rev. John: Hawkesbury
Page: 
25.2
Line: 
26.1
Respelt: 
duga-duga
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
GLOSS: JS speculation
Source Details: 
Native Names of Places on the Hawkesbury, c 1826 [Rev. John McGarvie, Papers, 1825-35. A1613/CY Reel 1034, Mitchell Library, Sydney.] [Place names written in a differing hand, some in pencil, starting with ’Maria’ (line 2) " a probable informant who might be Maria Lock " are underlined.] Transcribed by Keith V.Smith [McGarvie, Presbyterian Minister of the Ebenezer Church (previously Portland Head) on the Hawkesbury River, signed letters to the press with the name ’Marramatta’. McGarvie came to Sydney in 1826 on the Greenock which was met by King Bungaree (K.V. Smith 1992). The document is placed with letters dated 1826.] ------------------ ABOVE NOTES BY KEITH SMITH ========================= Papers, 1825-1835. Mitchell Library reference ML A1613/CY Reel 1034 'Native Names of Places on The Hawkesbury below Mr A. Doyles Notebook original page numbers 24b: Native Names of Places on The Hawkesbury below Mr A. Doyles 26a: Names on the S. side of the River Hawkesbury 27a: (halfway down the list) Up the lower Branch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27b: [Frame 0185-6] Names of Places at Shoalhaven and vicinity ----- 28b: [Fr. 0187] 'Song on account [?] black fellow marrying [?] 4 gins [?] by the young fellow' 29a: [Fr. 0188] Song: A fight 29b: [Fr. 0189] Song: Fight ============== IN JS WORDLIST M-Z RINGBINDER
Comment: 
‘with instructions to destroy as many as they could meet with of the wood tribe (B-dia-gal)’ [Collins, 1: 348:30]; ‘The spear of the wood tribes, Be-dia-gal, Tu-ga-gal, and Boo-roo-bir-rong-gal, were known from being armed with bits of stone, instead of broken oyster-shells. ‘ [Collins, 1: 488:4];

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