1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 59:
"The `old men' are always the largest and strongest in the
flock, or in colonial language `mob.'"
1864. `Once a Week,' Dec. 31, p. 45, `The Bulla Bulla
Bunyip':
"About a mile outside the town a four-rail fence skirted the
rough track we followed. It enclosed a lucerne paddock.
Over the grey rails, as we approached, came bounding a mob
of kangaroos, headed by a gigantic perfectly white `old man,'
which glimmered ghostly in the moonlight."