malga

The malga is a weapon usually made in the form of Figure 2, but that with which these natives were provided somewhat resembled a pick-axe with one half broken off, and was of the form of Figure 1, being made so as to be thickest at the angle.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

These men carried a singular kind of malga, of a construction different from any Piper had ever seen.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

These ridges consisted of red gravel; the scrub contained callitris, casuarina, silver-leaved iron-bark, malga and brigalow, the two latter growing so thickly as to compel me to turn eastward to avoid them.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

These ridges consisted of red gravel; the scrub contained callitris, casuarina, silver-leaved iron-bark, malga and brigalow, the two latter growing so thickly as to compel me to turn eastward to avoid them.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823