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==Etymology== [[File:ST Gill Flight of a Bushranger.jpg|thumb|A bushranger on horseback being chased by the police in ''Hard-pressed (Flight of a Bushranger)'', painted by [[S. T. Gill]], c. 1853]] The earliest documented use of the term appears in a February 1805 issue of ''[[The Sydney Gazette]]'', which reports that a cart had been stopped between Sydney and [[Hawkesbury, New South Wales|Hawkesbury]] by three men "whose appearance sanctioned the suspicion of their being bush-rangers".<ref name=adob>Wilson, Jane (14 April 2015). [http://adb.anu.edu.au/essay/12 "Bushrangers in the Australian Dictionary of Biography"], Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 14 June 2018.</ref> [[John Bigge]] described bushranging in 1821 as "absconding in the woods and living upon plunder and the robbery of orchards." [[Charles Darwin]] likewise recorded in 1835 that a bushranger was "an open villain who subsists by highway robbery, and will sooner be killed than taken alive".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Bushranging | encyclopedia =[[Australian Encyclopaedia|The Australian Encyclopedia]] | volume =2 | pages =582β587 | publisher =[[Australian Geographic|Australian Geographical Society]] |edition=5th | date =1988 | isbn =1-862760004}}</ref>
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