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Show DIDN'T GET CHIEF'S MEANING Sailor Mleunderttood, but After All, Kangaroo le as flood a Name as Any Other. Tho Kangaroo received Its name through tho failure of white men to understand tho langungo of tho Australian Aus-tralian bushmen. Captain Cook, discoverer dis-coverer of Australia, gazing shoreward ono dny, saw n group of natives nbout what seemed to bo a most peculiar animal. IIo sent n group of men ashoro to get It, and was still more amaxed when told, of Its shnpo, Its habit of cnrrylng Ita young In n pouch and Its rcmnrknblo leaping nblllty. no wanted tho nntlvcs' nnmo for tho specimen spec-imen that ho Intended to tako back to England. "What's tho namo of that bcnstlor demanded nn English tnr of tho natives' na-tives' chief. , "Knn gn roo," returned tho native "Kangaroo, ch7" repented tho Ballon man, and, satisfied, returned to his captain, xno met Js, nowever, mat jfl tho words spoken by tho chief nrd merely n phrnso meaning "I, or wc, don't know,." fl |