Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . The day was so hot that when I undertook to pre-pare the new specimen, the feet had already begun to decay,and I was afraid the animal would spoil before I got theskin off it. I therefore took it to the coolest place Icould find, and prepared the skin. I sat in the shade of agum-tree, and had to keep continually moving out of thesuns scorching rays. The flesh, which we roasted on thecoals, had a fine gamey flavour, and did not taste atall like kangaroo meat. One circumstance, h
Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . The day was so hot that when I undertook to pre-pare the new specimen, the feet had already begun to decay,and I was afraid the animal would spoil before I got theskin off it. I therefore took it to the coolest place Icould find, and prepared the skin. I sat in the shade of agum-tree, and had to keep continually moving out of thesuns scorching rays. The flesh, which we roasted on thecoals, had a fine gamey flavour, and did not taste atall like kangaroo meat. One circumstance, however, de-tracted from the enjoyment. The boongary, like mostof the Australian mammals living in the trees, is infested bya slender, round, hard worm, which lies between the musclesand the skin. There these little worms, rolled together incoils, are found in great numbers. They did not trouble thenatives, who did not even take the pains to pick them out. They grumbled, on the other hand, because they were notpermitted to gnaw the bones, especially the feet, which theylooked upon as the best part of the CHAPTER XIX A festival dance of the blacks—Their orchestra—A plain table—Yokkai wants tobecome a white man—Yokkais confession—A dangerous situation—Afamily drama. The next day, before sunset, the dance began again. Atone end of the Httle place for dancing, where the grass hadalready been well trampled down, sat the orchestra, con-sisting, as usual, of only one, or sometimes of two musician was sitting on the ground with his legscrossed, and was singing the new song, accompanyinghimself by beating together a boomerang and a nolla-nolla. In front of him on the little plat of level ground fourteento sixteen men were dancing in ranks of four or five the orchestra, on the right, a woman kept dancingup and down, keeping time with the men and with themusic. On Herbert river more than one woman never takespart in the dance. This is a great honour t
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