The cows were beginning to calve very fast, and when the calves were unable to travel, they had to be destroyed, which made the mothers stray from the camp to where they had missed them; one went back in this manner the previous night, but it was out of the question to ride thirty miles after her over the stones they had traversed.
"The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine"
Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine
She is dressed very prettily indeed, and in the opera house she has a high-sounding name, like Melba, Nordica, calve or Patti.
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur
I felt sure there was to be a waterless track beyond, so I stayed at this agreeable place for a week, in order to recruit the camels, and more particularly to enable another cow to calve.
"Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance Of Exploration, Being A Narrative Compiled From The Journals Of Five Exploring Expeditions Into And Through Central South Australia, And Western Australia, From 1"
Ernest Giles