Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . FLINT KNIFE FROM GEORGINA RIVER WITH ITS SHEATH (i size). are placed side by side and bound together by a kind ofstring, which is probably spun from the hair of the outer side of the sheath is whitened with chalk, and atthe small end of it is a tuft of red cockatoo down. Thenatives procure the knife by making a fire on the flint rockand then pouring water on it. Thus it splits, and very nicepieces can easily be selected. This flint knife is the finestAustralian impl
Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . FLINT KNIFE FROM GEORGINA RIVER WITH ITS SHEATH (i size). are placed side by side and bound together by a kind ofstring, which is probably spun from the hair of the outer side of the sheath is whitened with chalk, and atthe small end of it is a tuft of red cockatoo down. Thenatives procure the knife by making a fire on the flint rockand then pouring water on it. Thus it splits, and very nicepieces can easily be selected. This flint knife is the finestAustralian implement I have seen. One would hardly thinkthat it was made by an Australian native, so much labourhas been bestowed upon POUCH FOR THE CARRYING OF PITUEl .III THE BOOMERANG 49 I obtained the little pouch represented below on thesame occasion. It is a torpedo-shaped network made ofplant fibre, and is used exclusively for carrying the leavesof a tree called pituri{Duboisia hopwoodii).The leaves contain astimulant which pos-sesses qualities similarto those of tobacco and opium, and are chewed ^-- - /in by several tribes in theinterior of Australia. Pituri is highly valued as a stimulant^and is taken for barter far and wide ; the habitat of thetree is, however, probably not so limited as has been pituri pouch obtained by me was secured from nativesabout 200 miles west of Diamantina river, and was knittedwith great skill in about two hours. When the native police are at home at their barracksthey have not much to do. The troopers are fond ofroaming about in the woods, and they devote themselvesto the athletics peculiar to their race, usually undressingthemselves so as to be more free in their mo
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