A species of pandanus grew here in abundance and the valleys contained trees of the Casuarina and Eucalyptus.
I will say little of the fine and abundant timber furnished by what is called the casuarina tree, and by what the English improperly call the pear.
The arrow is a cane of about four feet long, into which a pointed piece of the hard, heavy, casuarina wood is firmly and neatly fitted; and some of them were barbed.
The country in its immediate neighbourhood is open, and timbered with fine casuarina trees; the grass is dry and long, and the triodia approaches to within a quarter of a mile of it.
The rocks bore south 62 degrees west from camp; we travelled over sandhills, through scrub, triodia, and some casuarina country, until we reached the hill in twenty miles.
For several hours we kept on south-south-east, over sandhills and through casuarina timber, in unvarying monotony.
The country consisted chiefly of sandhills, with casuarina and flats with triodia.
The day was cool; the southern horizon, the only one we could see, was bounded entirely by red sandhills and casuarina timber.
In eight or nine miles we found that sandhill and casuarina country existed, and swallowed up the unfortunate creek.
The country surrounding the range to the north appeared to consist of open red sandhills, with casuarina in the hollows between.
We got clear of the low hills of the glen, and almost immediately entered thick scrubs, varied by high sandhills, with casuarina and triodia on them.
After bathing, remounting, we made good another twenty miles, and camped in triodia and casuarina sandhills.
Two little hills only, bearing 20 and 14 degrees west of north, were the sole objects higher than the general horizon; the latter was formed entirely of high, red sandhills, with casuarina between.
The hills we were upon, were the sandy hills that always bound a coast that is low, and were covered with banksias, casuarina and the grass-tree.
The view from these last was very beautiful: on the one hand a forest of palms, pandanus and casuarina trees, on the other a line of waving grass; and below, the blue sea breaking in snowy rollers on a golden beach.
The edge of the land was rapidly being eroded, and many tallcasuarina trees, with roots undermined by the water, lying prostrate in the sea.
The latter is about three-quarters of a mile long, and is divided by a huge mass of rocks covered with casuarina trees, behind which is a small stream of brackish water.
First we passed the point forming the north extremity of Casuarina Bay, distinguished by a single palm tree which rises high above the jungle, and next came abreast of Kopenheat, marked by a grove of palms and a hut, finally bringing up at 1.
Good paths ran through the jungle, and following one to the southward, we reached the shore of Casuarina Bay, so named from the long grove of dark-foliaged trees that extends right along the coast.
The ground was level, and our way lay for some time within sound of the breakers of Casuarina Bay.
In the afternoon we walked along the shore of Casuarina Bay to the mouth of the Dagmar.
I could hear the light wind rustling through the branches of the casuarina trees that fringed the shore.
We named it Fir Island from its crown of fir-like casuarina trees, which sent out on every breeze a balsamic odor that was charged with far-away New England recollections.
Mr. Maxwell and I landed in Province Wellesley, under the magnificent casuarina trees which droop in mournful grace over the sandy shore.
The tranquillity of this secluded spot, and the drooping trees of the casuarina equisetifolia, added to the mournful solemnity of the place.
A great number of the flying-fox, or vampire bat, hung from the casuarinatrees in this enclosure, but the natives interposed to prevent our firing at them, the place being tabued.
There was no sound in the solitary little house but the sighing of the wind in the casuarina trees and the steady puff of the girl's cigar.
It was about this time that any wayfarer passing through the casuarina forest "might have observed" a light in Vaiti's cottage late one night.
The sun was near setting, and the rays were slanting long and low among the red trunks of the gloomy casuarina trees, when the spirited blacks came galloping up to the cottage.
He drove furiously, looking neither to right nor to left, and, passing the house like a gorgeous whirlwind, was instantly lost in the casuarina forest beyond.
The nest hung from the extremity of a casuarinabranch which projected horizontally.
At the time of our visit, the natives were engaged in planting vanilla cuttings about the bases of the casuarina trees, which furnished excellent supports for the creeper to attach itself to.
Our singular bivouac on the summit, which I had so long wished to visit, was adorned with a strange-looking tree, probably Casuarina glauca.
The timber of Eucalyptus, Araucaria, and Casuarina was good enough to export; and the capacity of southern and south-eastern Australia as a vine-growing country soon became apparent.
A Blackfellow emerged suddenly from the creek, holding a Casuarina branch in his hand, and pointing to the westward.
These flats were separated by shallow gullies, and some Casuarina creeks, which come probably from the dividing ridges of the two rivers.
Loranthus and the Myal in immense bushes; Casuarina frequent.
I looked into the Casuarina thickets which occasionally fringed its bank, in search of water; but found none.
We passed a fine large but dry Casuarina creek, coming from the westward, with a broad sandy bed.
This bat seems also to be very abundant on the Friendly Islands, for Forster describes having seen five hundred hanging upon one casuarina tree.
December) Le Naturaliste sails for Europe; the Cumberland at King Island; Robbins erects the British flag; Le Geographe and Casuarina sail for Kangaroo Island.
The Casuarina joined her consort on the following day.
Le Geographe and the Casuarinaremained at Kupang till June 3--twenty-eight days--enjoying the hospitality of the Dutch.
Le Geographe and the Casuarina left on December 27, and sailed direct for Kangaroo Island, to resume in that neighbourhood the charting which Baudin had abandoned in the previous year.
The Casuarina was provisioned for twenty-six days for this task, and Freycinet took with him Boullanger, one of the hydrographers, who prepared the charts under his supervision.
But as theCasuarina had kept on westward during the night, in a frantic endeavour to catch her leader, the two vessels crossed far apart and out of vision.
He had left Sydney on excellent terms with the governor, who had not only wished well to his undertaking, but had assisted in its prosecution by enabling the Casuarina to be purchased.
Exploration of the two gulfs in the Casuarina by Freycinet.
He kept Le Geographe on her course, under a full head of sail, without permitting the Casuarina to come up and report, or inquiring after the success of her work.
The vegetation assumed a new character, the eucalyptus and casuarina alternating with the wild cherry and honeysuckle.
The currejong of the forest, and the casuarina which lines the rivers, stand with brighter green in cheering contrast to the dulness of surrounding leaves.
The process followed by the Australian colonists when they converted a native word for the Casuarina trees into `she-oak.
The maximum of Casuarina appears to exist in Terra Australis, where it forms one of the characteristic features of the vegetation.
Hence more than two centuries ago Rumph already bestowed the name Casuarina on a Java species, led by the Dutch colonists, who call it there the Casuaris-Boom.
The image of the god Oro was a straight log of casuarina wood, six feet long, uncarved, but decorated with feathers.
They comprised particularly the tall cypress-like casuarina and the broader-leaved and more exuberant callophyllum, thespesia, and cardia.
Her sonnets seem to me to be of great beauty, and her longer piece, entitled "Our Casuarina Tree," needs no apology for its rich and mellifluous numbers.
Here they were able to land and erect a tent, hidden from the sea by a grove of casuarina bushes.
It is a low, swampy district which a mile inland is raised only 20 or 30 feet above the sea, and is mostly occupied by casuarina and pandanus trees.
Whilst the Pandanus and the Casuarina are most conspicuous amongst the trees, bushes, herbs, grasses and ferns predominate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "casuarina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
