"Mr. Ireland: Yes; after the claim is `jumped.'"
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `The Miner's Right,' p. 37:
"If such work were not commenced within three days, any other miners might summarily take possession of or jump the claim."
ibid. p. 52:
"Let us have the melancholy satisfaction of seeing Gus's pegs, and noting whether they are all en regle. If not, we'll `jump' him."
Ibid. p. 76:
"In default of such advertisement, for the general benefit, they were liable, according to custom and practice, to have their claim `jumped,' or taken forcible possession of by any party of miners who could prove that they were concealing the golden reality."
1875. `Melbourne Spectator,' August 21, p. 189, col. 3:
"Jumping selections ... is said to be very common now in the Winmera district."
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, Melbourne Memories,' c. xvi. p. 114:
"The heifer station was what would be called in mining parlance `an abandoned claim' and possibly `jumpable.'"
Jumper, n. one who jumps a claim. See Jump.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. xii. p. 127:
"Come along, my noble jumper, you've served your injunction."
1886. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 132:
"Twenty white-haired Junes have left us Grey with frost and bleak with gale."
1890. Carl Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 97:
"But what especially gives life and character to these woods are the jungle-hens (mound-builders) ... The bird is of a brownish hue, with yellow legs and immensely large feet; hence its name Megapodius."
K
See Pine. The settlers' pronunciation is often Kackatea. There is a Maori word Kahika, meaning ancient.
1855. Rev. R. Taylor. `Te Ika a Maui,' p. 439:
"White-pine, Podocarpus dacrydioides--Kahikatea, kahika, korol. This tree is generally called the white-pine, from the colour of its wood. The kahikatea may be considered as nearly the loftiest tree in the New Zealand forest; it often attains a height of little less than two hundred feet, and in that respect rivals the noble kauri, but the general appearance is not very pleasing."
1875. T. Laslett, `Timber and Trees,' p. 304:
"The kahikatea or kakaterra-tree (Dacrydium excelsum or taxifolium). This majestic and noble-looking tree belongs to the natural order of Taxaceae, more commonly known by the name of Joint Firs. Height 150 to 180 feet, rising sixty feet and upward without a branch."
1876: W. Blair, `Transactions of New Zealand Institute,'
vol. ix. art. 10, p. 160:
"This timber is known in all the provinces, except Otago, by the native name of `kahikatea'. I think we should adopt it also, not only on account of being more euphonious, but for the reason that so many timbers in other parts of the world are called white-pine."
1873. `Appendix to Journal of House of Representatives,'
vol. iii. G. 7, p. 11:
"On the purchased land stands, or lately stood, a small kahikatea bush... . The wood appears to have been of no great money value, but the natives living in Tareha's pa depended upon it for their supply of fire-wood."
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand, p. 124:
[It is Sir James Hector who assigns the tree to Coniferae, not Taxaceae.]
1888. Cassell's' Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iii. p. 210:
"The White Pine or kahikatea is a very beautiful tree, and droops its dark feathery foliage in a way which recalls the graceful branches of the English elm-tree."
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand, p. 126:
"Kahikatoa, tea-tree of Cook. Leptospermum scoparium, Forst., N.O. Myrtaceae."
1883. J. Hector, `Handbook of New Zealand, p. 130:
"Kahikomako, a small, very graceful tree, with white sweet-smelling flowers; height twenty to thirty feet.
Wood used by the Maoris for kindling fires by friction."
1807. J. Savage, `Some Account of New Zealand,' Vocab.
p. 75: