1865. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 27:
"All the animals to make friends with, mobs of horses to look
at."
1879. W. J. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. 197:
"I purchased a mob of horses for the Dunstan market."
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 111:
"The stockman came suddenly on a mob of nearly thirty horses,
feeding up a pleasant valley."