quondongs

In these hollows one may hope to find feed for the camels, for here may grow a few quondongs, acacia, and fern-tree shrubs, and in rare cases some herbage.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

On the 24th there was no change, a few quondongs affording a meal for the camels.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

The entrance is in a low outcrop of magnesian limestone, surrounded by buckbush, a few low quondongs and a low, broom-like shrub; beyond this, mulga scrub.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

We could not afford to wait a day, always onward must it be until another water is found, so, with a bullet through his head, I left him to find his way to the Happy Hunting-grounds where there are no native wells nor spinifex, only flowing rivers and groves of quondongs!

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

The well itself was situated in a belt of mulga-scrub, and surrounded by a little patch of grass; growing near by, a few good camel bushes, such as acacia and fern-tree (quondongs, by the way, were not seen by us north of Alexander Spring, with the exception of one near

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885