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104: We heard everywhere on the gumtrees the cricket-likeinsects--usually called locusts by the colonists--hissingtheir reed-like monotonous noise. From quarter toquarter the Dictionary of National Biography continuesits stately progress. This timber ismuch valued for shingles, wheelwrights'work, ship-building, andbuilding purposes generally. knowledge of the ways of thebush.

98: An oven of stones, exactly like a Maori umu or hangi. Stillmore dreaded by the explorer is the `Mulga' scrub, consistingchiefly of dwarf acacias. -- Taeniopygia castanotis, Gould. ' This perennial artificial grass is usefulfor mixed pasture.