animal
Language:
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