. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. OES, OR AUSTRALIAN WILD DOGS. many miles, and literally starved the sheep out of the country. Thebounty on the scalps, added to the value of the meat and skins, partlypaid for the trouble, which required a muster of all the squatters andtheir employes for a considerable distance around. A drive, or battue, is managed in this way: A yard with a hig
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. OES, OR AUSTRALIAN WILD DOGS. many miles, and literally starved the sheep out of the country. Thebounty on the scalps, added to the value of the meat and skins, partlypaid for the trouble, which required a muster of all the squatters andtheir employes for a considerable distance around. A drive, or battue, is managed in this way: A yard with a high 424 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. fence is built in one of the scrubs on the plains, and from this yard two fences run out on the plain for a long distance, widening like the sides of the letter V. All the men, boys, and blacks in the neighborhood are mounted on horseback, and scour the country for many miles around; they move in the direction of the jaws of the Y, and when the herd is once inside it, the animals are doomed. They go straight towards the scrub which conceals the yard, and do not discover where they are till they are inside the enclosure. Then the rails are put up, the blacks enter with clubs, and the slaut!;hterino; be-. gins. A kan2aroo can AUSTRALIAN WILD HORSES. jump clean over a horse, and therefore the fence must be not less than seven feet high to pre-vent his escape when frightened. We were not bent on any such performance, which is nothingbut slaughter, though made necessary by the conditions of the coun-try. I may add here that in some parts of the colony it is oftennecessary to make a drive of wild horses exactly as they drive thekangaroo. It is no uncommon matter for a squatter to make adrive of four or five hundred wild horses, which are killed for theirhides, but more especially to prevent their eating the grass, destroyingthe fences, and enticing tame horses out of the paddocks. We haveseen several droves of wild horses, and they look very p
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