hide-tanning

Updated: May 8, 2025

An Australian bushman would call my tea no more than water bewitched, and my small pinch of China leaves in an infuser spoon but a mean mockery of his own generous handful of black Indian leaves, well stewed in a billy to a strength suited for hide-tanning. 'I assure you, Mr.

A. J. (Alec John) Dawson - The Record of Nicholas Freydon: An Autobiography