There is a melancholy interest attaching to both the Mallee and Brigalow, for in them lie the bones of many gallant and persevering explorers.
Also in Australia is the Mallee Scrub, covering thousands of square miles between the Murray River and the coast.
The valley I now traversed became somewhat scrubby with mallee and triodia.
The camp which Carmichael and Robinson had selected, while I rode over to the other creek, was a most wretched place, in the midst of dense mallee and amidst thick plots of triodia, which we had to cut away before we could sit down.
There were thin patches of mulga and mallee scrub occasionally.
To-day I noticed a tree in the malleevery like a Currajong tree.
The country along the banks of Carmichael's Creek was open and sandy, with plenty of old dry grass, and not much triodia; but to the south, the latter and mallee scrub approached somewhat near.
Mallee scrub in some places very dense, in others open, with good grassy plains at intervals, in which I think water could be had by digging; very few birds about, and those small.
After leaving the mount we have a thick mallee and mulga scrub to go through with spinifex.
Bearing to-day, 272 degrees, so as to round the point of range, which seems to have a little mallee in the gullies on this side, and some trees on the west side.
For the last two miles we have had no sand hills, but very dense mallee and tea-tree, with a light sandy soil with a little limestone, also salt bush and pig-face in abundance.
Moya felt the black eyes burning, and for once her own eyes fell; indeed she was a wondrous picture of beauty and youth and enthusiasm, there in that place, in her dainty blouse and habit, with the dull green mallee above and all around her.
It was will against will, personality against personality, in an open space among the mallee and the full glare of a climbing sun, mile upon mile from human help or habitation.
And the mallee shrub showed no signs of thinning; the open spaces were as few as ever, and as short; on every hand the leaves seemed whispering for miles and miles.
The convict stared; but, in the perpetual twilight of the mallee that was the only fact to which Moya could have sworn.
The mallee is a gregarious bird, and at the breeding season large numbers of them come together.
He generally lives near the edge of the mallee scrub, and his flesh is very much esteemed by all who have eaten it.
There is one fowl here called the mallee bird, about the size of the pheasant, and resembling him in many ways.
Suddenly, however, a genius named Lascelles discovered that this hopeless Malleeland was simply unrivalled for wheat, and his schemes have now brought seven million acres under the plough.
We had a touch of comedy, however, when Mr. Bellchambers attempted to expose the egg of the Mallee fowl, which is covered a foot deep in mould.
They are the Spinnifex in the West and the Malleescrub in the East.
A good husband is the Mallee cock, and looks after the family interests.
I remember he had a fight with a little bull-calf, about a week old, that came in with a wild heifer, and Aileen made as much of his pluck as if it had been a mallee scrubber.
A man on foot or a flock of sheep always keeps frightening 'em farther and farther from the old beat till they get back into a bit of back country or mallee scrub and stop there for good.
There are tracks through the endlessmallee scrub, only known to the tribes in the neighbourhood, and a few half-castes like Warrigal, that have been stock-riding about them.
Quite good crops are now being got from the mallee when the rains are favourable, but in dry seasons the wheat scorches off, and the farmer's labour is wasted.
Here were numerous old native tracks, and we could see where the mallee roots had been dragged up, broken into short pieces, presumably sucked or allowed to drain into some vessel, and stacked in little heaps.
Though we knew that the blacks do get water from the mallee roots, and though we were in a spot where it was clear they had done so perhaps a month before, yet our attempts at water-finding were futile.
The blistering sand showered in our faces, and the brittle twigs of the mallee cut us severely.
The stunted mallee and mulga shrubs afford no welcome shade; they dot the sand-wastes in endless even growths, and the eye is wearied by their everlasting motionless presence.
Straggling growths of mallee and mulga spread everywhere, and at their roots reptiles and numberless nameless pests seemed to abide.
But beyond the dust and smoke of these Nature-combating engines of civilisation, the open desert, dotted with its stunted mulga and mallee growths, shimmered back into the horizon.
But one by one they dropped out, the twisted wheels showing how they had tried conclusions with flinty boulders, or collided with one or other of the numberless mallee stumps protruding above the ground.
Far behind we could hear the sand crunch under hundreds of feet, and the mallee shrubs crackling and breaking, but hardly a word was spoken.
The mallee is just high enough to render it impossible for a man on horseback to look over it.
This Wimmera District tapers off into the mallee scrub, the old desert of Victoria, which has lain neglected for years, while Victorians have opened up country 2000 miles away.
One tract of the mallee scrub, shared between Victoria and South Australia, covers an area of nearly 9000 square miles.
The mallee (Eucalyptus dumosa) is one of the strangest products of a strange country.
Several rivers strive to flow from the ranges through or by the mallee to the Murray, but none succeed.
When they breed in shelter and a semi-settled district--if they can issue from mallee scrub--a handsome reward is always offered for their heads.
No surface water is to be obtained in the mallee district; its silence is only disturbed by the melancholy wail of the dingo.
One of the leading farmers in the Mallee country in Victoria, Mr. R.
On the Mallee the richest parts are denoted by the pines and bull oak trees, while the large and small Mallee marks good and medium loams and clays.
The Mallee land is suitable for handling by the man with small means, either on a farm of his own or as a share farmer, as in the first case the clearing is cheap, while in the second he can handle a large area.
The Mallee soil is mostly sandy loam, but red and black loams, varying from sand to clay, are found.
Although the average yield is lower than other parts of the wheat belt, wheatgrowing has proved very profitable in the Mallee country, and there is plenty of evidence of that fact.
He found the country covered with an almost impenetrable mallee scrub, and as there was neither grass nor water for the horses, he was forced to retreat.
Three small springs only had been found, and the country was covered with the gloomy mallee and tea-tree scrub.
In 1862, Goyder paid a visit to the much-abused region north of Fowler's Bay, but found nothing to reward him but mallee scrub and spinifex.
So he did not drop until he gained the ridge, and found the pines merely the outer ranks of a regular phalanx of mallee scrub.
The mallee scrub appears like a forest of dried osier, growing so close that it is not always easy to ride through it.
The mallee is a species of eucalyptus growing 12 to 14 ft.
Nothing could add to the sterility and the monotony of these mallee scrubs.
To the dry, aridMallee Scrub of the Western District is a radical change of scene.
The county called Lowan, after the bird, is in the Mallee country in the west of Victoria.
In the Malleecountry there is abundance of work, cutting down mallee, picking up dead wood, rabbit destruction, etc.
A special Mallee Board, consisting of Mr. Hayes, head of the Mallee branch of the Lands Department, and Mr. Porter.
Its color is not the dark-brown suitable for dark scrubs, but is the light-brown which matches the dead mallee twigs lying so thickly on the ground under the scrub.
It is, indeed, difficult to imagine a more beautiful bird as it flies about in the bright Mallee sunshine.
It flies ahead of one along the half-chain strip of scrub left on mallee roads, and is a feature of interest.
Driving along mallee roads, one sometimes sees these birds make a short, quick run to cover.
It was fairly common when I taught in a Mallee school, near where Hopetoun now is.
I met it frequently in the Mallee and in the Maryborough and Ararat districts.
Just as the mallee farmer is dependent on his annual wheat harvest, so the remarkable colony of people living on Cape Barren Island is entirely dependent on the annual Mutton-Bird harvest.
The next bird is one of our well-known cage pets--the beautiful Ringneck--the Mallee Parrot.
Officer states--"With reference to the Mindi or Mallee snake, it has often been described to me as a formidable creature of at least thirty feet in length, which confined itself to the Mallee scrub.
Started early, and steered about North-East through dense mallee thickets, destitute of grass or water, for eighteen miles.
His homestead, you see, was in the heart of the mallee, and on the edge of a ten-mile block which was one tangle of mallee and porcupine scrub from fence to fence.
My lad, I was as young as you are when I came to this place; but that's very near ten years ago, and ten years take some time in the mallee scrub.
It was worse to think of that little mite in the mallee scrub, and how she had sat on my knee the night before; and how she would come into my store when I was doing the books, spill the flour about, and keep on asking questions.
It's in the mallee I hear him, just as he heard little Mona; yet they all three lie together over yonder behind the stock-yards.
Instantaneously she saw before her an austere stretch ofMallee Scrub.
Old dry Mallee roots when split up have something of that quality.
Yes, my dear, unless one has to retreat to the depths of the Mallee Scrub, as I must shortly do.
If the principle that anyone who makes wasteland productive became its owner were enforced, the Mallee Scrub, instead of being a barren waste, even in appearance, might soon become a great granary of fruit and corn.
There is such a charming fire of Mallee roots here,' said Mrs. Courtland, opening the window under which her daughters were sitting in the veranda.
When I was at Cannawijera a month ago I thought of your enthusiasm for the Mallee Scrub.
If Talbot worked out his present plans, Laurette's prospects centred not only in social extinction in the Mallee Scrub, but something also of social disgrace.
And yet to many the Mallee Scrub, like all deserts, comes to have an inexplicable charm.
But as Laurette spoke her heart sank as she thought: 'I may then, perhaps, be entombed in the Mallee Scrub.
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