Identifier: amongcannibalsac1889lumh (find matches)
Title: Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland;
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922 Anderson, Rasmus Björn, 1846-1936, tr
Subjects: Ethnology Natural history
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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idymamisJiindersii), which was fed by four wood-swallows (Artanmssofdidus). One of the swallows fell to the same shot. Thethree survivors swooped down toward the young cuckooseveral times, but they took no notice whatever of their deadcompanion. I tried to approach the place, but the boldbirds kept flying against me, as if to prevent me fromproceeding, or to exhibit their wrath at what had happened.I shot one more, and waited to see what would happen.Both disappeared, but in the course of half an hour theyreturned accompanied by two others. On a farm outside the village I saw a large nocuousinsect, a moth which sucked the juice out of the oranges inthe garden. Every evening a war of extermination had tobe made against these animals, which are all the same verybeautiful. Farmers have many other foes in tropicalAustralia, The large fruit-eating bat (^Pteropus) does greatdamage to the orchards, and it is no pleasant sight for theindustrious farmer to see the devouring swarms of these so-
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A a z < fcj n AUSTRALIAN MARSUPIALS 29 called flying-foxes advancing on his crops of an evening.Were it not for these enemies, fruit-growing in Queenslandwould be still more profitable than it is. An orange is nacheaper in Australia than in Norway, and all kinds of fruitare paid for in proportion. Nor is the European bee, introduced by the colonists,permitted to live in peace in its new home. A kind ofmoth attacks the larvae and destroys them. From Westwood I proceeded to Peak Downs. Outsidethe village the landscape was enlivened by the rare sight offlowers on the ground, the red blossoms of the Piineleahcentatostachya affording an agreeable change to the eye. At Peak Downs, situated about 200 miles west ofRockhampton, I received the first impression of genuinenative Australian scenery. Large plains, with here and therean isolated gum-tree ; extensive scrubs, and now and thenlow mountain-ridges in the background ; sometimes anemu would appear, or a little flock of kangaroos that ar

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