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Updated: June 7, 2025
We were going through the bunya-bunya country not far from our station, when out of the Bush there came a black gin with two half-caste girls, she ran up and stopped the buggy and implored my mother's protection for her girls because the Blacks wanted to kill and eat them. 'O ... oh! Biddy made a shuddering exclamation.
'That's the bunya-bunya, and the nuts are splendid roasted in the ashes if ever that one gets properly ripe it has to be yellow, you know I'll ask Joan Gildea to let me roast it for you. Only it wouldn't be the same thing at all as when it's done in a fire of gum logs, the nuts covered with red ashes, and then peeled and washed down with quartpot tea.... 'Quartpot tea!
Mr Berrington said that during the hot months he always had a supply of the wood, as the smoke arising from it emits not only a very pleasant odour, but is much objected to by the mosquitos, and by burning it in the room those pests of Queensland are always driven out. One of the most remarkable trees they met with was the bunya-bunya, a species of pine.
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