1860. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 169:
"It was more horrible to see the drowning, or just drowned,
huddled-up `mob' (as sheep en masse are technically called)
which had made the dusky patch we noticed from the hill."
1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), May 22, p. 34, col. 2:
"A mob of sheep has been sold at Belfast at 1s. 10d. per
head."