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  2. Friendly Porpoises

    PORPOISES are immune from the spears of "Binghi" on the Coburg peninsula, N.T., where the aborigine looks on the speedy mammals as his best fishing cobber. ...

    Article : 157 words
  3. So they Say

    WEIRD-LOOKING things are the mourning caps that are worn by aboriginal women out west of Bourke. The first I saw was at Whittabranah Station, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 149 words
  4. Indelible Chalk

    IN the Limestone caverns on Twelve Mile Creek, a tributary of the Palmer River, about 20 miles above Palmervnle telegraph station, are rude drawings of the aborigines. ...

    Article : 84 words
  5. Likes His Meals

    NOTHING can disturb a big goanna once he starts enjoying a meal. On many occasions I have come across goannas in the bush eating rabbits, wallabies, dead beasts, ...

    Article : 178 words
  6. Stone Fish Poison

    THE stone fish never goes looking for a victim—it waits for the man to come to it. In the olden days many remedies were tried—boiling rice water, molten bloodwood ...

    Article : 218 words
  7. Northern Hot Springs

    RIDING across from a portion of Katherine River. Northern Territory, and making into Brock's Creek 100 miles south of Darwin, you cross a nice clear ...

    Article : 238 words
  8. Canoe Trees

    WHEN the aborigines wanted a new canoe they merely selected a suitable tree, preferably a red-gum, and cut a sheet of bark from the side of the trunk. After ...

    Article : 183 words
  9. TO CONTRIBUTORS

    Endorse the first slip of EACH paragraph with your name and address. Payment is made monthly upon cuttings of published matter being forwarded to The ...

    Article : 48 words
  10. Cannibal Insects

    THE mantis (or praying mantis) is a real cannibal, and whenever two of the insects meet there is invariably a fight, especially if they are both females. The ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. Teeth And Hide

    THE armaments race among the sharks must have been keen at one period of their existence, for their weapons, both of offence and defence, have reached a degree ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. York Peninsula Minerals

    IT is no fiction that rich alluvial gold was found in the Batavia River area by accident. An old Rockhampton blackboy, who was with me, found the rich patch at ...

    Article : 268 words
  13. Bush Mixture

    I KNEW a man who always mixed equal parts of gumleaves with his tobacco and he said that it improved it immensely. His method was to pick the young red gumtips ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. Burn the Snakes

    I Have heard old bushmen say that if a snake is killed near a camp and burnt immediately the camp will not be troubled with snakes again. My experiences have ...

    Article : 152 words
  15. Growing Sandpaper

    ON the north coast of New South Wales I saw a settler pick leaves of a tree growing in his paddock and use these leaves for sandpaper. The tree was a ...

    Article : 143 words
  16. Ben Bowyang and His Pal Bill

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    Article : 6 words
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