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Show The Australian Aborigines. As a hunter the native Australian is marvelously adjusted to his environments. environ-ments. His success lies in an intimate inti-mate knowledge of the habits of animals ani-mals 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, however 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 ab-sent mother by following tracks too indistinct to serve as a guide for a European. |