![]() The gidya around seemed to accentuate the complaint, until I became a walking skeleton. ![]() The travelling away from the gidya scrubs down the Belyando River soon dispelled all signs of the sickness. It is prepared for use by the seeds being pounded up and mixed with gidya ashes, which the gins chew until it obtains the proper consistency. 'Linti gid ya bala haw' 'Katig-a sang ulo Ginsingganan ka na gid, bala' 'Pag pungko lang bala, da Indi sagad pasaway' Know them by heart because these were the phrases my mother used whenever she scolded me when I was a kid. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert ParkerĬumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk - Complete Women who are 40 to 49 years old should talk to their doctor or other health care provider about when to start and how often to get a mammogram. Matig-a gid ya kuno ulo ko Basi waay sang mga sweet Ilonggo phrases. There was the range of the Copper-mine hills to the south, lighted by the wan moon and between and to the west a rough scrub country, desolating beyond words, and where even edible snakes would be scarce spots of dead-finish, gidya, and brigalow-bush to north and east, and in the trees by the billabong the cry of the cockatoo and the laughing-jackass.Ĭumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk - Volume 02 ![]() The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas The lines of trees resolved itself on closer inspection into close-growing gidya scrub, and long before they reached it the crows had again made their appearance. ornery 1 having an ugly or mean disposition 2 obstinate. madras a fine, firm cotton cloth, usually striped or plaid, used for shirts, dresses, and so on. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills indignant feeling or expressing anger or scorn, especially at unjust, mean, or ungrateful action or treatment. The acacia I have mentioned is called gidya in some places of Australia.
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