233: I wondered often what was the meaning of this, amongst manyother peculiar colonial phrases, `Is the man a good mark?'I Maori word for a storehouse on postsor other supports, like a Pataka (q. coronatus, Gould.
'Great excellence is implied by this expression. It is quitepossible that etymologically Spell is connected withGer. Experience, however,showed it to be really very good. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p.
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