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The other name, native well is, as a later explorer David Carnegie, author of Spinifex and Sand (1898), points out, a misnomer.
The metaphor in canary is senseless, though, because the word is actually a misnomer.
The word is a hyphenated misnomer.
This sort of misnomer leads Carnegie to suppose that “to the uninitiated no map is so misleading as that of West Australia where lakes are salt-bogs without surface water, springs seldom run, and native `wells' are merely tiny holes in the rock, yielding from 0 to 200 gallons.”
The misnomer must be acceptable because the parallelism implies equality between the folks so designated by adjectives of color.