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  2. Crocodiles In the Fitzroy

    THE crocodile, always called the alligator on the Fitzroy, was at one time common in the town reach. Gavial Creek, one of the earliest named in the district, was ...

    Article : 271 words
  3. SOTHEY SAY.

    I HAVE seen some strange articles which were called musical instruments in the bush. One man carried an instrument which he called a cigarciona. It was simply ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 259 words
  4. Junk Metal

    THE sharp rise in prices for scrap metal has made the many rubbish dumps worthy of prospecting by fossikers, and good values are being assayed per ton. The ...

    Article : 185 words
  5. Physiological Facts

    TWO sides of a face are never alike. The eyes are out of line in two cases out of five, and one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten. The right ear ...

    Article : 291 words
  6. Rain Guns

    UNTIL a few years ago there stood at Charleville, west Queensland, several huge funnel-shaped structures, whose rusting iron frames were fast falling to decay. ...

    Article : 157 words
  7. Giving Bunny a Go

    A SQUATTER in the Bathurst (N.S.W.) district puts a high value of the common goanna, or lace lizard. He placed several hefty specimens on a populous rabbit ...

    Article : 244 words
  8. The Fences Suffer

    IN places where there are many swagmen the wire fences suffer. A short length of fencing wire is about the handiest thing that a swagman can get hold of. There ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. See-saw Lake

    WIDE lakes with flat shores play queer pranks on the unwary. A swagman, after visiting Bungendore homestead, pitched camp on the edge of Lake George, ...

    Article : 171 words
  10. Moth Cakes

    RECENT mention in The Queenslander of the periodic visits of aborigines to the bunya pines recalls similar gatherings that take place yearly when the Bugong moth ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. Dog's Good Hearing

    MANY times I have watched different dogs dart out from the camp into the pitch darkness barking at what appeared to be nothing at all. When a dog does ...

    Article : 190 words
  12. Cooking Kangaroo Toil

    AN old aborigine taught me the way in which kangaroo tail should be cooked. and though the manner might not be pleasing to most a trial will convince that ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. River Crossings

    SOME of the river crossings in the outback are interesting, and there are two in North that must be unique. At one of the crossings on the Norman, ...

    Article : 118 words
  14. Ben Bowyang and His Pal Bill

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    Article : 6 words
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