Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1917 — The Australian Aborigines. [ARTICLE]

The Australian Aborigines.

— XsnaTiunter the native Australian is marvelously adjusted to his environments. 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 powers of observation. He decoys pelicans by imitating their cries, catches ducks by diving below them, locates an opossum in a tree by marks on the bark or by the flight of mosquitoes, finds snakes by observing the action of birds, and follows a bee to its store for honey. Any animal which leaves a track, how-ever dim, in 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 Another by following tracks too indistinct to serve as a guide for a European.