Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1917 — Primitive Australian Savage Most Marvelous of Hunters [ARTICLE]

Primitive Australian Savage Most Marvelous of Hunters

Tn on dnrnncn and speed the Australian aborigine is not the equal of the American Indian, and his weapons of wood and poorly fashioned stones are effective only at short range; but as -a hunter the native Anstraitan Js marvelously adjusted to his environment, the National Geographic Magazine says. His success lies in an Intimate knowledge of the habits of animals on land, in the ground, In trees and under water, and his wonderfully developed power of observation. He decoys pelicans by imitating their cries, catches ducks by diving be-

sow them, locates an opossum « a tree by marks on the bark or by the flight of mosquitoes, finds snakes by observing the actions of birds and ■follows a bee to its store of honey. Any attimal which leaves a track however dim, in the sand, on rock or in grass, falls* an easy prey to the black fellow. Children are taught to track lizards and snakes over bare rocks and to find their absent mother by following tracks too indistinct to serve as a guide for a European. When a white man is lost in the desert or a child strays from home, the final resort Is to secure a “black trackdr.”