1798. D. Collins, `Account of English Colony in New SouthWales,' Vocabulary, p. 612:
«Din – – a woman.»
1830. R. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p. 152:
«A proposition was made by one of my natives to go and steal agin (wife).»
Ibid. p. 153:
«She agrees to become his gin.»
1833. Lieut. Breton, R.N., `Excursions in New South Wales,'p. 254:
«The flying gin (gin is the native word for woman or female) isa boomall, and will leave behind every description of dog.»
1834. L. E. Threlkeld, `Australian Grammar,' p. x:
«As a barbarism [sc. not used on the Hunter], jin – – a wife.»
1845. J. O. Balfour, `Sketch of New South Wales,' p. 8:
«A gin (the aboriginal for a married woman).»
1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 367:
«Gin, the term applied to the native female blacks; not fromany attachment to the spirit of that name, but from some (tome) unknown derivation.»
1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discovery in Australia,' vol. I. c. iv.p. 74:
«Though very anxious to . . . carry off one of their `gins,'or wives . . . he yet evidently holds these north men in greatdread.»
1847. J. D. Lang, `Cooksland,'p. 126, n.:
«When their fire-stick has been extinguished, as is sometimesthe case, for their jins or vestal virgins, who have charge ofthe fire, are not always sufficiently vigilant.»
1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p. 98:
«Gins – – native women – – from gune, mulier, evidently!»
1864. J. Rogers, `New Rush,' pt. 2, p. 46:
«The females would be comely looking gins,
Were not their limbs so much like rolling-pins.»
1865. S. Bennett, `Australian Discovery,' p. 250:
«Gin or gun, a woman. Greek gunae and derivative wordsin English, such as generate, generation, and the like.»
1872. C. H. Eden, `MY Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 118:
«The gins are captives of their bow and spear, and are broughthome before the captor on his saddle. This seems the orthodoxway of wooing the coy forest maidens. . . . All blacks arecruel to their gins.»
1880. J. Brunton Stephens, `Poems' [Title]:
«To a black gin.»
1885. R. M. Praed, `Australian Life,' p. 23:
«Certain stout young gins or lubras, set apart for the purpose,were sacrificed.»