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Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
kangaroo
English JS Main: 
animal
English: 
we have never discovered that they have any method of ensnaring them [kangaroos]], or that they know any other beasts but the kangaroo and dog. Whatever animal is shewn them, a dog excepted, they call kangaroo: a strong presumption that the wild animals of the country are very few. Soon after our arrival at Port Jackson, I was walking out near a place where I observed a party of Indians, busily employed in looking at some sheep in an inclosure, and repeatedly crying out, Kangaroo, kangaroo!
Category: 
fauna: mammals
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
51
Line: 
14
Respelt: 
ganga-ru
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1789
Source Details: 
Captain Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791 (1793): Republished at Sydney’s First Four Years (1961), Library of Australian History

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