| Show I SUPREME IN THEIR OWN ENVIRONMENT Australian Natives Masters of W Woodcraft Among the wonders of ot empire are living men of ot the Stone age whose forefathers saw the rise and decay I of ot all aU bygone civilizations Ignorant as they seem to us the aborigines of ot Australia In their own environment are as much In advance of our most brilliant scientists as our scientists are In advance of ot the average man Our cleverest men would starve to death If dropped down without food clothing or weapons In the heart beart of ot Australia but ut the Stone ago age men thrive and flourIsh In such conditions They live solely by hunting their knowledge of ot the habits of ot wild thIngs being uncanny If It they were not the worlds world's most marvelous trackers they would have hare died out outages outages ages ago They can read every scratch cratch and mark on the ground asI as easily as ns you read this paper and I can tell whether the creature they are chasing Is young oung or old what It t Is doing and where It Is going They eat anything even snakes and lizards and once they get on its track rack a n creature is doomed for they never give gh-e up until they they- get it Nordo Nor Nordo Noro do o they make the mistake common to o the whites of ot trying to dig out of ot Its ts burrow burro an animal that Is not at home ome Their crude form of ot writing by burnIng or carving dots and lines i ion on n sticks sticks stick stick messages messages enables enables them Ulem iem to send any Information by runner to distant members of ot their tribes But even more wonderful are Bre re their smoke messages They seem eem to converse In smoke as ns easily as s the airplane writes In smoke In Dor our ur own skies Starting the fire by rubbing one piece of ot wood against another they select elect their materials In the tho most careful manner Familiar with the type ype of ot smoke given off by different woods they make smoke of ot various densitIes and colors thick clouds light Ight spirals or flurries In brown yellow black blue or pink and erry every er- er ery ry change of ot color and form has Its ts meaning In their old age code |
