Note 73: Mr. Simpson gives the following account of the Bunya Bunya, a fruit-bearing tree lately discovered on the N.
Ascending a steep hill, some four miles further on, we passed through a bunya scrub, and for the first time had an opportunity of examining this noble tree more closely.
Bunya nuts, sir: grows on them trees something like firs.
I could not help contrasting the character of this place with the moist creeks and mountain brushes of the Bunya Bunya country near Moreton Bay, where I had been accustomed to observe the same plant.
The bunyais remarkable as being the only hereditary property which any of the aborigines are known to possess, and it is therefore protected by law.
The Bunya-Bunya withstands drought better than most of the genus, and flourishes luxuriantly in and around Melbourne.
The kernel of the Bunya fruit has a very fine aroma, and it is certainly delicious eating.
The Bunya-Bunya mountains in Queensland derive their name from this tree.
The bunya-bunya tree is noble and gigantic, and its umbrella-like head overtowers all the trees of the bush.
There is a beautiful bunya-bunya in a garden just beyond, its foliage fresh varnished by the rain, and toning from a rich darkness to the very spring tint of tender green.
Our blacks weren't regular cannibals, but in the bunya season they'd all collect in the scrubs and feed on the nuts and nothing else for months.
That part of the country where these trees most abound is called the Bunya-Bunya country.
Among the Bunya people (Turrubul tribe, near Brisbane), the trees belonged to the people of the place.
Among some tribes of South Queensland (Bunya-Bunya country) marriage was arranged without any consent of the contracting parties.
But at certain gatherings, such as Bunya-bunya harvest in Queensland, or on great ceremonial occasions, all the segments of the original community would reunite.
We are informed that among the Bunya-Bunya people (Turrubul and kindred tribes, South East Queensland) the woman had all the heavy work to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bunya" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
