They stood beneath the dense shade of a splendid kurrajong, and lazily flicked the flies off themselves while Frank Hawden held the reins and waited for me.
"My Brilliant Career"
Miles Franklin
We pegged out a claim on which we worked, camped under the shade of a "kurrajong" tree, close above a large granite rock on which we depended for our water; and here we spent several months busy on our reef, during which time Lord Douglas went home to England, with financial schemes in his head, leaving Mr. Davies and myself to hold the property and work as well as we could manage and I fancy that for a couple of amateurs we did a considerable amount of development.
"Spinifex and Sand Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia"
David W Carnegie
So, putting the camels down in the welcome shade of a kurrajong, I lay down beside them and was presently relieved by the sound of a revolver-shot, our signal that water was found.
"Spinifex and Sand Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia"
David W Carnegie