Their food was soon finished, and they had to subsist on a black seed like the natives called "nardoo.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

I also shot a crow that evening, but was in great dread that the natives would come and deprive me of the nardoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference

Coming to the gunyahs where we expected to have found them, we were disappointed, and seeing a nardoo field close by, halted, intending to make it our camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference

I found some nardoo close by, and had the good luck to shoot a crow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

King and I proceeded to collect nardoo, leaving Mr. Burke at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

Mr. Burke and King out for nardoo; the former returned much fatigued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

With the greatest fatigue and difficulty we reached the nardoo camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

For some time we were employed gathering nardoo, and laying up a supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

King out collecting nardoo; Mr. Burke and I at home pounding and cleaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

We gathered some nardoo and boiled the seeds, as we were unable to pound them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

It proved a most valuable addition to my otherwise scanty supper of nardoo porridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

On the following day Mr. Wills and I went out to gather nardoo, of which we obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

The nardoo grows in loose soil, subject to inundation, generally on polygonum flats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

Afterwards a supply of nardoo was given him; at which he ate until he could eat no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red True Story Book] Reference

Before starting he got three pounds of flour and four pounds of pounded nardoo, and about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

In the evening they supplied me with abundance of nardoo and fish, and one of the old men, Poko.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

They laid him softly within the hut, and placed at his head enough of nardoo to last him for eight days.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890] Reference

Mr. Burke and King out for nardoo; self weaker than ever; scarcely able to go to the waterhole for water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

Even if we got a good supply of fish, I doubt whether we could do much work on them and the nardoo alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

King gone out for nardoo; Mr. Burke at home pounding seed; he finds himself getting very weak in the legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

I found some nardoo in one of their camps, though, and with this and another crow I shot, I started back to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

King went out for nardoo in spite of the wind, and came in with a good load; but he himself terribly cut up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

During his absence I gathered nardoo and pounded it, as Mr. Burke wished to lay in a supply in case of rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

Mr. Burke and King collecting nardoo; self at home too weak to go out; was fortunate enough to shoot a crow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

I still feel myself, if anything, weaker in the legs, although the nardoo appears to be more thoroughly digested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

I also shot a crow that evening; but was in great dread that the natives would come and deprive me of the nardoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference

All day they toiled hard to prepare nardoo seed; but their small strength could not provide enough to support them.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890] Reference

In one of their deserted mia-mias he found a large store of the nardoo seed, and, carrying it with him, returned to Wills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red True Story Book] Reference

The rushes, nardoo, thatch, and water-grass, dried and parched by the hot winds, were matted together with mud and rubbish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference

They at once set about collecting nardoo; two of them were employed in gathering it, while one stayed in camp to clean and crush it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red True Story Book] Reference

This was now absolutely their only food, with the exception of two crows which King shot; he alone seemed to be uninjured by the nardoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red True Story Book] Reference

Some Aborigines took pity on the three emaciated men, brought them fish and showed them how to gather and cook the seed of the nardoo plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference