. Across Australia . the honey itself isconcerned it is excellent. Our next camping ground was by the side of a lagoon,half a mile long, called Whanaluru. Its surface wascovered with the broad, green leaves and lovely blueflowers of a water lily (Fig. 340). On the leaves, littlelong-legged black and white mud larks were hoppingabout searching for food ; in the lanes of water duckswere swimming, and in the centre of the lagoon a fewstately pelicans were floating, holding themselves, asusual, quite aloof from other birds. While we werebusy in camp our boys went out and brought in a supplyof duck
. Across Australia . the honey itself isconcerned it is excellent. Our next camping ground was by the side of a lagoon,half a mile long, called Whanaluru. Its surface wascovered with the broad, green leaves and lovely blueflowers of a water lily (Fig. 340). On the leaves, littlelong-legged black and white mud larks were hoppingabout searching for food ; in the lanes of water duckswere swimming, and in the centre of the lagoon a fewstately pelicans were floating, holding themselves, asusual, quite aloof from other birds. While we werebusy in camp our boys went out and brought in a supplyof ducks and pigeons and also two pelicans. The latterare unpleasantly fishy in their flavour, so we generouslygave them to the Gnanji men who had followed us upfrom Karrabobba, at the same time telling them to campon the other side of the lagoon, as they looked morepicturesque in the distance. These Gnanji men have acurious habit of treating their hair which was quite unlikeanything that we had seen before (Fig. 339). They. ^r-;?; rir • ■■■■ (5T^;ifc^v
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