8: Not even a withered wisp of kangaroo-grass. See Mangrove. The word kangaroo is probably analysable into kaor kang, nose (or head), and goora,long, both words or local equivalents being widelycurrent. (Kirk, `Forest Flora,' p.
Torres-straits T. 283: The poor youth, new to the wilds, had, in the expressivephrase of the colonials, got bushed, that is, utterlybewildered, and thus lost all idea of the direction that heought to pursue. Kendall, `Poems,' p. Lady Barker, `Station Amusements in New Zealand,' p.
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