OUR PIPES The moon rose away out on the edge of a smoky plain, seen through a sort of tunnel or arch in the fringe of mulga behind which we were camped--Jack Mitchell and I.
The country looks as though a great ash-heap had been spread out there, and mulga scrub and firewood planted--and neglected.
If I'd had sense a couple of years ago, I wouldn't be tramping through this damned sand and mulga now.
Mulga scrub all round, and, in between, patches of reddish sand where the grass ought to be.
ON THE EDGE OF A PLAIN "I'd been away from home for eight years," said Mitchell to his mate, as they dropped their swags in the mulga shade and sat down.
A few low hills, and generally level country--apparently thickly wooded withmulga and acacia.
Travelled till after dark through and over spinifex plains, wooded with acacia and mulga scrub, and camped without water and only a little scrub for the horses, having travelled nearly forty miles.
The scrub consisted of mulga with a few other trees.
The river has fine reaches of water, but the banks are too thickly wooded with mulga scrub to be of much value for pastoral purposes.
It was wooded with broad-leaved box and mulga scrub.
Marzetti's mare had foaled, the progeny being a daughter; the horse that was staked was worse, and I found my old horse had also ran a mulga stake into his coronet.
Chimpering consisted of a small acacia, or as we say a mulga, hollow, the mulga being the Acacia aneura; here a few bare red granite rocks were exposed to view.
Traversing first the racecourse plain, we then entered some mulga scrub; the mulga is an acacia, the wood extremely hard.
The lame horses are worse: the poisonous mulga must be in the wounds, but I can't get it out.
At five miles, on the following morning, we passed a hollow with some mulga acacia in it.
Only a few acacia bushes now indicated the flow of the water over the grassy mulga flats, which wound about so much around sandhills in the scrub, that I left the creek, and pushed on now for the South Australian Telegraph Line.
There were thin patches of mulga and mallee scrub occasionally.
Mr. Tietkens extracted a long mulga stick from his fetlock: neither of the two staked horses ever became sound again, although they worked well enough.
I kept the sextant still elevated, and turned my head very slowly half way round, and there I saw the enemy, creeping out of the mulga timber on the west side of the little creek channel, and ranging themselves in lines.
The mulga bears a small woody fruit called the mulga apple.
In seven or eight miles we got into much better country, lightly timbered with mulga and splendidly grassed.
Then, when all the harm which was possible had been done, the useless thing had jammed up against a dead mulga root and had been slowly covered with sand.
The character of the country was the same as that which they had travelled over since leaving Oodnadatta: masses of scanty mulga scrub standing out dark on a landscape of vast bare plains or rolling sand-hills.
One moment he saw the thick twisted trunk of a mulga tree with a few broken branches, standing out on an otherwise treeless plain; the next it had gone completely.
Then he took the long piece of mulga and twirled it with his two hands in the hollow.
Yarloo therefore built them a rough sun-shelter of mulga boughs and they rested under this all day, doing nothing which would create thirst.
The wandering tracks led to a little clump of mulga trees about a couple of hundred yards away from the water-hole.
The spot he had chosen was a little plain covered with dry buck-bush and surrounded on all sides with mulga scrub.
No grass; just a dry uninviting bush here and there, growing up out of loose barren sand, with, at long intervals, a clump of twisted mulga trees.
About five miles west of the town is a narrow but close belt of timber, mostly gnarled mulga and gidgee, with here and there a sprawling stunted creek gum.
Past this spot he was not able to make any progress; twice he tried hard to reach some tributary of the Victoria River, but failed, and had to spend many long days in fruitlessly riding through dense mulga and hedgewood scrub.
It projects to a height of three feet from the ground among the mulga scrub, and there is a round hole in it through which the souls of dead plum-tree people are constantly peeping, ready to pounce out on a likely damsel.
There was a great grey plain stretching away from the door in front, and a mulga scrub from the rear; and in that scrub, not fifty yards from the kitchen door, were half a dozen nameless graves.
A gold prospector had been found lying in themulga scrub with a big nugget in his hand, while his swag, when unrolled, had shown a whole handful of lesser nuggets.
So we unstrapped our swags and hid them in the mulga scrub by the side of the road; then we rode on to the shanty, got down, and hung our horses to the verandah posts.
Mulga is the name of a long narrow shield of wood, made by the aboriginals out of acacia-wood.
Flax and tussock and fern, Gum and mulga and sand, Reef and palm--but my fancies turn Ever away from land.
For the first three miles our course was through a very thick mulga scrub, with plenty of grass, and occasionally a little spinifex.
We arrived at the foot nearly naked, and got into open sandy rises and valleys, with mulga and plenty of grass, amongst which there is some spinifex growing.
Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that sought his own abode, That perched above the Dead Man's Creek, beside the mountain road.
It struck a stone and gave a spring that cleared a fallen tree, It raced beside a precipice as close as close could be; And then as Mulga Bill let out one last despairing shriek It made a leap of twenty feet into the Dead Man's Creek.
We sat under a clump of mulga saplings, with our backs to the trunks, and got out our pipes.
A breeze stirred the mulga and brought the sound of a good voice singing in the surveyors' camp: Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to min'?
The tanks are full and the grass is high in the mulga off the track, Where the bleaching bones of a white man lie by his mouldering swag Out Back.
Started on a north course to get through the mulga scrub.
We arrived at the foot nearly naked, and got into open sandy rises and valleys, with mulga and plenty of grass, among which there is some spinifex growing.
The country is without timber except a few mulga bushes at intervals.
The country around this water consists of bold stony rises and sand, with salt bush and grass; no timber except mulga and a few myall bushes in the creek.
Our journey has been through a very thick mulga scrub and sand hills, very heavy travelling.
The last eleven miles the soil is good, with grass and salt bush in abundance, but much thicker with mulga and other low scrubs.
The timber consists of mulga and dwarf gum, with saplings.
To continue this course would lead me again into the mulga scrub, where I do not want to get if I can help it.
After leaving the mount we have a thick mallee and mulga scrub to go through with spinifex.
We then entered a thick scrubby country of mulga and other shrubs; the soil now changed to a dark red, covered splendidly with grass.
And when he left her that night she said: “I’m sorry we’re done with Mulga Camp.
We’re to start cutting the mulga trees for the sheep to-morrow,” he said when he came back.
D’you think we’ll have to camp up in the mulga paddocks?
He called this country a battlefield in describing it to me, and he said the mulga was almost the last ammunition you had left to carry on the fight with.
We may turn them up on the hills, or we may keep them alive a while longer in the mulga paddocks, cuttin’ down the trees for them tae feed on—or we may kill them tae the last one an’ boil them down for tallow.
When the mulgagives out we’ll have to retreat to them, and that’s going to be a bad business.
Occasional clumps of mulgabreak the even line of the horizon, and, in the valleys, thickets or belts of bloodwood are seen.
Shortly after the scene of Satan's death the mulga clumps became greater in extent, until for half the day, and more, we wound our way through dense thickets.
To descend to the cave beneath, the natives had made a rough ladder by leaning mulga poles against the edge of the entrance from the floor.
We reached their camp just in time to see the late inmates disappear into a thicket of mulga close by.
The second, little heaps of the roots of a tree (known to me only as pine-mulga [Probably a "Hakea.
Some good grass grows in themulga scrubs which are dotted over the plain surrounding the hill.
I have; wait till you make your evening feed off mulga scrub and bark--that'll take the buck out of you!
They are invariably situated on low surface outcrops of 'desert sandstone, surrounded by mulga and grass; beyond that, sand.
Excellent grass surrounds the rock-hole, enclosed by mulga thickets, so we rested here a day, shooting a few pigeons and enjoying the first proper wash since April 25th, when we last camped at a good water.
Most that I have seen were made of mulga (acacia) hardened by fire.
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.
Thanks for the idea, boys," said he good-naturedly, and he promptly discarded the objectionable emblem of civilised parts and threw it carelessly into a mulga bush.
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.
The leafless branches of the mulga shrubs growing near quivered in the rising rays, and the long sand-track ahead sparkled as the waters of a gilded ocean.
I found him enjoying a siesta under the scant shade of the solitary mulga bush on his domain, and scaring the numberless flies away by his vigorous snores.
Straggling growths of mallee and mulga spread everywhere, and at their roots reptiles and numberless nameless pests seemed to abide.
Ted that's shouting," which information made it clear to all that Silent Ted in his excitement had placed the blazing mulga stump in his mouth and thrown away his pipe.
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