Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . WALLABY NET FROM HERBERT RIVER (I size). VII ANIMAL LIFE IN THE SCRUBS 95 on account of its small wings. The swamp-pheasanthas not the family weakness of the cuckoo, for it doesnot lay its eggs in the nests of other birds. It hasa peculiar clucking voice, which reminds one of the soundproduced when water is poured from a bottle—a soundfamiliar to all who have camped beneath the gum-trees ofAustralia. The open country was therefore not the best territory forme, for there was but
Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . WALLABY NET FROM HERBERT RIVER (I size). VII ANIMAL LIFE IN THE SCRUBS 95 on account of its small wings. The swamp-pheasanthas not the family weakness of the cuckoo, for it doesnot lay its eggs in the nests of other birds. It hasa peculiar clucking voice, which reminds one of the soundproduced when water is poured from a bottle—a soundfamiliar to all who have camped beneath the gum-trees ofAustralia. The open country was therefore not the best territory forme, for there was but little game. On the other hand I. THE SCREW-PALM [Pandanus) reaped a more abundant harvest in the scrubs, where there isa greater variety of animal life; and to wander with the blacksin these almost impenetrable jungles in the wide river valleywas very interesting. Nothing escapes their notice. On oneoccasion, in the middle of September, when I made anexcursion with one of them, he made me understand that hewished to go away for a moment to look for passed, and I became impatient, but when I beganto shout for him I was not a little surprised to hear hisresponse coming from the far distance above. Approaching,I discovered him in the top of an immensely high threw down to me two large young of the gigantic wader 96 AMONG CANNIBALS CHAP. Jabiru {Myderia australis). Quickly, and with the dexterityof an acrobat, he descended, laying hold with his hands ofthe twining plants which hung like natural ropes down thetrunk of the tree. It is not easy to penetrate this scrub, which is so densethat one has sc
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