Identifier: amongcannibalsac1889lumh (find matches)
Title: Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland;
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922 Anderson, Rasmus Björn, 1846-1936, tr
Subjects: Ethnology Natural history
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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he bones, and thelungs were consumed and had a horrible smell. The nativesdo not like anything which smells bad, but to reject otherthan the damaged parts was out of the question. The restwas eaten, and no one was taken ill after this disgusting meal. It must be admitted that my headquarters could hardlybe called comfortable ; but if we understand the art ofadapting ourselves to circumstances, we may at all timesmake things more bearable than they seem to be. In a newcountry like Northern Queensland, where people live so farapart, and where each one thinks only of himself, it is easyto see what a great advantage it must be to have a placewhere one can find shelter. Besides, it was a real comfortto know that I was not likely to die of starvation, thanksto Nellys damper and salt beef During a short period therewas also fruit in the garden, but, after all, my greatest treatwhen I came down from the mountains was milk. Every onewho has travelled in the tropics knows what a luxury this is.
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CLIMBING WITH THE AID OF KAMIN. To face page 89. .%i-. CHAPTER VII Kamin (implement for climbing)—On top of the gum-trees—Hunting the wallaby—The spear of the natives—Bird life in the open country—^Jungle-hens—Cassowary. A FEW days after my arrival at Herbert Vale, the nativeswere to undertake a hunt of the wallaby, and with two blackcompanions I presented myself at the place where the huntwas to begin. We left home in the morning. The forenoonwas devoted to hunting for small mammals, which duringthe daytime keep themselves concealed in the high trees.With kind words and tobacco I induced my blacks to climbup one immense gum-tree after the other. The Australian black on the Herbert river was more skilfulin climbing than any of the other natives I had seen up to thistime. If he has to climb a high tree, he first goes into thescrub to fetch a piece of the Australian calamus (Calamusaustralis), which he partly bites, partly breaks off; he firstbites on one side and breaks it

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