 | Science - 1849 - 428 pages
...I had come off after him in my shirt-sleeves ; moreover, I had no dinner, but I got plenty of lerp. Lerp is very sweet, and is formed by an insect on...in great abundance, and covered large tracts of the scrub like snow ; that it is very nutritive, the natives becoming fat during the season in which it... | |
 | Geology - 1849 - 424 pages
...I had come off after him in my shirt-sleeves ; moreover, I had no dinner, but I got plenty of lerp. Lerp is very sweet, and is formed by an insect on...in great abundance, and covered large tracts of the scrub like snow ; that it is very nutritive, the natives becoming fat during the season in which it... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1850 - 436 pages
...found in great abundance on the leaves of the young mallee plant. The natives call it lerp, and it is " very sweet, and is formed by an insect on the...feels like matted wool, and tastes like the ice on wedding-cake." It is very nutritive, and adheres to the leaves so slightly, that it is washed off by... | |
 | Science - 1850 - 332 pages
...plant, Eucalyptus dunrtosa. It is known to the natives by the name of " lerp," pronounced " glerp." It is very sweet, and is formed by an insect on the leaves ; in appearance it is like a flake of snow, it feels like matted wool, and tastes like the ice on a... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1873 - 310 pages
...mannite. One kind is thus described by a settler :— " I had no dinner, but I got plenty of lerp. Lerp is very sweet, and is formed by an insect on the leaves of gumleaves; in size and appearance like a flake of snow, it feels like matted wool, and tastes like... | |
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... journey was obliged to leave his party, in pursuit of a native guide who had decamped with a gun. In mentioning this incident, Mr Cay writes (25th March 1845) : " I was rather cold that night, as I had come off after him in my shirt-sleeves ; moreover,... 