Show SUPREME IN THEIR OWN environment australian fiust Lust ralian natives masters of I 1 Wood woodcraft craf t among the wonders of empire are ding men of the stone age whose ire fathers saw the rise and decay t all bygone civilizations I 1 ignorant as they seem to us the of australia in their own P viron ment are as much in advance ii if our most b brilliant scientists as tur pr scientists are in advance of the man our cleverest men starve to death it if dropped lown own without food clothing or ve apons in the heart of australia ut kut the stone age men thrive and flourish in such conditions they live solely by hunting their knowledge of the habits of wild things being uncanny if they were lot the worlds most marvelous trackers they would have died out ago they can read ever every 37 scratch and marl mark on the ground as easily ns as you read this p paper iper and can tell whether the creature they are chasing Is young or old what it Is doing and where it Is going they eat anything even snakes and lizards and once they get on its crack back a creature Is loomed doomed for they never give up until they get it nor do they make the mistake common to the whites of trying to dig out of ts burrow an animal that Is not at I 1 ome their crude form of writing by turning or carving dots and lines H dent inhabitants were in the habit babit of digging two large pits one of which was for washing the other for cooking stones heated red hot were thrown in and upon these were laid the meat bound in green bulrushes bul rushes upon this again was placed another heap of hot stories stones and so on until the required quantity was disposed of montreal family herald |