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: The natives produce the black dye for their flax-work, forwhich purpose the bark is first bruised and boiled for a shorttime. grasscountry, such as the porcupine-grass covered districts of theinterior, the stick is used for setti 120: The toa toa, a small tree which is much prized by the nativesfor walking-sticks, and only grows, they say, in theneighbourhood of Tonga Riro. Lydekker, `Marsupialia,' p.

'Scribbly-Gum, n. 125: Here we saw the native-companion, a large bird of the cranegenus . The name Australia wasadapted from the Latin name Terra Australis. Adopted by the colonists from theaboriginal name.