bool, or bull,
a sweet aboriginal drink.
1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.:
«A good jorum of bull (washings of a sugar bag)» [givento aborigines who have been working].
1839. T. L. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions,' vol. ii. p. 288:
«The flowers are gathered, and by steeping them a night inwater the natives made a sweet beverage called `bool.'»
1878. R. Brough Smyth, `Aborigines of Victoria,' vol. i. p. 210:
«In the flowers of a dwarf species of banksia( B. ornata) there is a good deal of honey, and this wasgot out of the flowers by immersing them in water. The waterthus sweetened was greedily swallowed by the natives. Thedrink was named beal by the natives of the west ofVictoria, and was much esteemed.»
i.q. belar (q.v.).