Show I 1 rire it in 1 Ss in wet weather it is usual for the J australian kust ralian aborigine to carry in the hand beneath the kang kangaroo gar oo 00 skin a 3 piece 0 smoldering w wood which compensates pen sates the bearer in some sort for the want vt of a flannel waistcoat and en ables him to light a fire at a mome moments its ro notice tice one of conr men had also a plan on cold nights nighta of lyring lying down rolled up in his furs upon the ashes of a raked out fire he explained to my husband that the advantage of thus going gain to bed was twofold being no less lesa good for warmth than for concealment especially when I 1 passing the night in a strange place where the keeping up of a fire after dark might attract the notice of unfriendly natives each tribe possesses a territory of its own and each family of the tribe haj its own especial tract of land within that territory here a man can light his fire and build his hut with without out fear fea of molestation it is lain in fact his paternal estate so that the word fire conveys to an australian the same meaning indof of fatherland or birthplace as the tha j word hearth conveys to a european and la is used by the aborigines iu the game bama bense mrs mallett |