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  • If that were the case, the river -- which the natives called the Barcoo -- must be the largest stream on the northern coast, and he concluded that it was identical with the Victoria, whose mouth had been discovered about nine years before by Captain Stokes.

    History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880

  • Such sudden changes in temperature made any "Barcoo" sores most painful; but fortunately we had suffered comparatively little from this unpleasant disease.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Nothing but an entire change of diet and way of living can cure the "Barcoo"; constant washing, an impossibility

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • 'Barcoo' barcode app promotes ethical consumerism phone apps already available that let you scan products 'barcodes to then compare pricing, but Barcoo is the first of its type that lets you find out about

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Barcoo, developed by a group of young Germans, is a free download application that allows customers to point their mobile phones at the barcode on products while shopping to cheek a company's performance on social and environmental responsibility.

    Michele Hunt: The Genie Is Out of the Bottle -- People Everywhere are Claiming Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Michele Hunt 2011

  • Barcoo, developed by a group of young Germans, is a free download application that allows customers to point their mobile phones at the barcode on products while shopping to cheek a company's performance on social and environmental responsibility.

    Michele Hunt: The Genie Is Out of the Bottle -- People Everywhere are Claiming Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Michele Hunt 2011

  • Prog is food, waddurang means old woman, and pigweed was boiled up or eaten raw as a green vegetable to prevent 'Barcoo rot' or scurvy.

    Bullockies' Ball 1997

  • My ole Ma, arms like a Barcoo shearer, she had ... '

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • Enjoying himself enormously, he began to drove the Western Queensland stock routes, down the Cooper and the Diamantina, the Barcoo and the Bulloo Overflow dwindling through the top corner of western New South Wales.

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

  • When we had ridden three or four miles we got on the watershed of a creek on the Barcoo side of the range.

    Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough

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