. 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. eaking him. Occasionally horses with brands onthem are found in the wild herds; they are impounded and advertised;at least such is the theory, but quite as often they are killed with therest to save trouble. A black boy mounted on a swift horse came riding back to us, andsaid the kangaroos were in a part of the plain that was concealed fromus by a
. 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. eaking him. Occasionally horses with brands onthem are found in the wild herds; they are impounded and advertised;at least such is the theory, but quite as often they are killed with therest to save trouble. A black boy mounted on a swift horse came riding back to us, andsaid the kangaroos were in a part of the plain that was concealed fromus by a patch of scrub. We moved in their direction, keeping the scrub HUNTING THE LAEGE MARSUPIALS. 425 between us and them, so as to get as close as possible before they dis-covered us. Our manoeuvre worked very well. There were ten or twelve ofthe animals feeding quietly, and we were within a few hundred yardsof them before they were aware of it. At the first alarm they rose ontheir hind-legs and took a look all around, and a second later they wereaway. How they did jump! They seemed to go thirty or forty feetat a time, but our host says it was little if any more than fifteen that is a tremendous jump; if you dont think so, just try A KANGAROO BATTUE, OR DRIVE. We let loose the dogs, which up to this time had been kept behindus, and they went away without any urging. The dogs are kept forthis purpose, just as fox-hounds are kept in England and France, ordeer-hounds in Scotland. The dogs soon overtook and pulled down ayoung kangaroo; this caused some delay, but not much, and they werespeedily put on the track of an old man kangaroo, as a full-grownmale is called, The old man led the dogs a lively chase. He made directly forwater, several miles away, which is always the custom of the kangaroo; 420 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN
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