hunting the kangaroo.
1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' p. 257:
«In chasing kangaroos, or, as it is technically termed,`kangarooing,' large powerful dogs are used . . .»
1870. E. B. Kennedy, `Four Years in Queensland,' p. 194:
«You may be out Kangarooing; the dogs take after one[a kangaroo], and it promises to be a good course.»
1888. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 15:
«We were sick of kangarooing, like the dogs themselves,that as they grew old would run a little way and then pullup if a mob came jump, jump, past them.»