. A complete geography . hat about seventy thousand remain,of whom about a third still wander in thewild interior, scantily clad (Fig. 543), build-ing the rudest of shelters, and gaining theirliving by hunting. They still use that pe-culiar weapon, the hoomerang, whicb, whenproperly thrown, will fly in curves and evenreturn to the thrower. Although for a long time it had beenknown that there was an Australian conti-nent, settlements were not made there until1778. Neither the country nor the productswere tempting to the early Spanish and Dutchexplorers, and those nations colonized otherlands of
. A complete geography . hat about seventy thousand remain,of whom about a third still wander in thewild interior, scantily clad (Fig. 543), build-ing the rudest of shelters, and gaining theirliving by hunting. They still use that pe-culiar weapon, the hoomerang, whicb, whenproperly thrown, will fly in curves and evenreturn to the thrower. Although for a long time it had beenknown that there was an Australian conti-nent, settlements were not made there until1778. Neither the country nor the productswere tempting to the early Spanish and Dutchexplorers, and those nations colonized otherlands of greater promise. It was not untilthe famous English navigator, Captain Cook,led an expedition to this southern continent ^^ Australian savage. (Seethat the fertile southeastern coast was dis- ^ boomerano^ in his hand,covered. For a while the distant land was used as a regular penal statiojito relieve the crowded condition of English jails, and naturally freesettlers came to the country slowly. But their number gradually. Fig. 543. 532 AUSTRALIA
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