gunyahs

Lizzie now pointed to a small belt of vine shrub that lay in front of us, and indicated that immediately outside it were the 'gunyahs', or huts; and, "plenty you shoot," she added showing her white teeth as she grinned with glee at the thoughts of the cheerful surprise she had prepared for her old companions.

Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858

Near the edge of a salt water creek we found a native camp, composed of about seven or eight gunyahs, curiously and neatly built of a conical form; all very nearly of the same size, about five and a half feet diameter at the base, and six and a half feet high.

Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York 2003

There was an old camping place with twelve or fourteen old gunyahs near our camp, but it was not visited by the natives during our stay there.

Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York 2003

Silently and swiftly the three passed along the track through a country which, at every step, became more desirable, and at last emerged on an immense pocket where there was a concourse of gunyahs from which the smoke curled up, and in every gunyah was abundance.

My Tropic Isle 2003

Near to this spot we came to a native encampment, consisting of eighteen or twenty gunyahs, (huts) of an oval form, about seven feet long, and four feet high; and at the southern end of the camp, was one large gunyah, eighteen feet long, seven feet wide, and fourteen feet high.

Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York 2003

Coming to the gunyahs where we expected to have found them, we were disappointed, and seeing a nardoo field close by, halted, intending to make it our camp.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

Two days after leaving the spot where Mr. Burke died, I found some gunyahs, where the natives had deposited a bag of nardoo, sufficient to last me a fortnight, and three bundles containing various articles.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

After a meal of fish and wild duck, together with a pasty kind of bread made from the bulrush root, which I found palatable, I was permitted to lie down in one of their gunyahs upon a bed of freshly-picked leaves, where, in spite of my anxieties, I soon fell asleep.

Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century George Forbes

We all shook hands and I gave them knives, tomahawks, etc., whereupon they took the lead, and brought us back about a mile, to where we found huts, or gunyahs, and a number of women and children.

A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

Everywhere else there was silence; no fires glowed by the gunyahs or anywhere, save near where the old man sat, and neither woman nor child could be seen.

Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900