Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; (1889) (14595641647)

Identifier: amongcannibalsac1889lumh (find matches)
Title: Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland;
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922 Anderson, Rasmus Björn, 1846-1936, tr
Subjects: Ethnology Natural history
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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d mentioned to me,but which I had not yet seen. The women were excusedfrom gathering fruits in the scrub, which was now scarcelyaccessible, and instead they were to go down to the grassyplain and examine the poisoned meat which we had laidthere as lures for the yarri. The men accompanied me toa neighbouring valley, where the women declared they hadseen boongary on one of their expeditions to gather fruit. The long incessant rain had formed countless brooks,which, with their clear and sparkling water, frequently crossedour path to vanish in the dense scrub. The sky was nowclear and cloudless, and the wet, dense forest lay bathed inthe bright glittering sunshine, which produced an intenseheat, while warm vapours rising from the ground and fromthe trees made the air so damp and oppressive that webecame very much exhausted. We often found large coils of the lawyer-palm obstruct-ing our passage. Willy repeatedly called my attention tothe fact that he had been right in urging that the scrub
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Harald Jensen iith Hoffensber^&Trap? Etabi PSEUDOGHIRIJS HERBERTENSIS.nsr CHAP. XIII TOOLLAH AND MONGAN 173 was impassable, but still we managed to get on, partly by-going round, partly by creeping under the obstructions. When we got out of the scrub we went along the sideof a steep heap of debris overgrown with creeping plants, adifficult road, for the stones were continually loosened underour feet and rolled down with a tremendous crash. We sawnothing but old traces of boongary ; on the other hand, Ishot a specimen of the toollah (PseudocJiiriis archeri) de-scribed above. The dogs proved useless, my Gordon setterwas, of course, too heavy to work in the scrub, to which shewas not accustomed, and Chinamans dog also disappointedmy expectations, for it refused to range at all, therebymaking its master so angry that he pelted it with sticks.We had agreed to meet the women and Jimmy at the footof the mountains, and when we reached the camp at duskwe found them already there ; they had