Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . ^*£ii^*^ < -x- ). ^s%3*Uf;«f«*!l Chlamydosawus kingii. It is evident that Australia is tiie country which has been leastchanged in the later geological time, being now in the main as itwas in the early part of the tertiary period. It has also been calleda land forgotten in the cretaceous period by the development of theearth. This land of the dawning reveals to us a correspondingprimitive and peculiar animal life, as well as flora with its proteacea^,leafless casuarinas, and
Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . ^*£ii^*^ < -x- ). ^s%3*Uf;«f«*!l Chlamydosawus kingii. It is evident that Australia is tiie country which has been leastchanged in the later geological time, being now in the main as itwas in the early part of the tertiary period. It has also been calleda land forgotten in the cretaceous period by the development of theearth. This land of the dawning reveals to us a correspondingprimitive and peculiar animal life, as well as flora with its proteacea^,leafless casuarinas, and acacias, which remind us of the vanishedvegetation of the elder tertiary period. The major part of Australiasmammals consists of the remarkable marsupials, which belong to IV FA UNA 2,77 the very oldest and lowest organisation of all known mammals, andwhich have, without doubt, survived from an earlier geological period,during which they were also found in Europe. Among birds thecountry has some remarkable species {Alegapodidci), the only ones inthe world that do not hatch their eggs themselves but, like reptiles,bury them in ear
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