Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of Queensland

by Carl Lumholtz

SHELL OF A Cyclestheria hislopi.

Finally, I may add that the results obtained by these hatchings are already so important that they supply materials for many future treatises, and that many lower fresh-water animals, not only entomostraca, but also forms belonging to totally different departments of zoology, e.g. Bryozoæ, have in this way been thoroughly examined and studied in a living condition.

C. Lumholtz’ travels.
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AUSTRALIA
Charles Scribner’s sons, Broadway, New York.

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CARL LUMHOLTZ’ TRAVELS
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QUEENSLAND.

INDEX

• Aborigines, two types of, [129];
  • characteristic feature, [130];
  • sight of, [143];
  • appearance, [181];
  • aquiline noses, [130];
  • results of civilisation, [182], [348];
  • class divisions, [199];
  • description, [260], [270];
  • estimate of white man, [292];
  • doomed, [348].
• Acacia, fragrans, [2];
  • bidwillii [25];
  • salicina, [25];
  • harpophylla, [33];
  • excelsa, [49];
  • pendula (myall), [49], [76].
• Acrobates pygmæa, [380].
• Acrocephalus australis, [21].
• Adelaide, city of, [5].
• Ælurædus maculosus, [96].
• Æpyornis maximus, fossil egg of, [6].
• Alcyone azurea, [150].
• Alpinia cærulea, [296].
• Amphibia, [384].
• Andropogon contortus (spear-grass), [23].
• Anseranas melanoleuca, [383].
• Ants, white, [19];
  • nests, [27];
  • black, [118].
• Araucaria, bidwillii (bunya-bunya), [21], [372];
  • cunninghamii, [372].
• Arrowroot, [74].
• Artamus sordidus (wood-swallow), [28].
• Artesian wells, [40].
• Asters, Queensland, [51].
• A strange household, [81].
• Astrebla elymoides, [37].
• Astur radiatus, [329].
• Australian whites, [29], [315] passim;
  • scenery, [209], [315].
• Bailey, F. M. (on mosses), [374].
• Ballarat, [8].
• “Balnglan,” a dingo, [180], [223], [226], [241];
  • death of, [267].
• Bandicoot (Paramelidæ), [27], [73], [92].
• Baobab, [374].
• Barcoo, river, [39];
  • rot, [58].
• Basaltic table-land, Leichhardt’s, [104].
• Basket, [193]–195 passim.
• Batatas edulis, [78].
• Bats, [19].
• Bauhinia hookerii, [25].
• Bear, native (Phascolarctus cinereus), [9].
• Bee, European, [29];
  • Australian, [142].
• Beef, [36].
• Beliander, [58].
• Bellenden Kerr Hills, [102].
• Bendi, weapon, [332]–334.
• Bird of paradise, [302].
• Blacks of Herbert river, [72];
  • civilised, [76];
  • appearance of, [77];
  • festival, [84];
  • agility, [89], [96];
  • keen sight, [95];
  • money valueless, [106];
  • only cult, [136];
  • absence of clothing, [169];
  • of medicines, [183];
  • depredations, [221];
  • cruelty (women), [222];
  • greatest delicacy, [271];
  • myths unknown, [282];
  • cannibalism, [287];
  • lazy, [290].
• Blankets, [264].
• Bledensbourne, [53].
• Bolboceras rhinoceros, [329].
• Boomerang, [49];
  • origin of, [52];
  • Indian, S.E., [52];
  • Assyrian and Egyptian use of, [51].
• Boongary, [102];
  • home of, [152];
  • food of, [157];
  • taken, [226].
• Bora ceremonies, [136].
• Borboby, a meeting for duels, [119], [127].
• Borrogo, a small marsupial, [207].
• Bottle-tree, [33], [35].
• Boundary-rider, [57].
• Bower-birds, [28], [139].
• Box-tree (Eucalyptus), [25].
• Boyma (Bhaiamé), a supreme Being, [283].
• Bread-fruit tree, [79].
• Brigalow-scrub, [33], [37], [52].
• Brisbane, [16].
• Brow-band, [121], [331].
• Brown, Robert, botanist, [369].
• Bunjup, an evil spirit, [202].
• Buprestidæ (beetles), [329], [385].
• Burial customs, [275].
• Burnett salmon (barramunda), [385].
• Bush costume, [19];
  • men, [58]–60.
• Butcher-bird, [94].
• Butterflies, [151], [385].
• Cabbage, [79].
• Cacatua roseicapilla, [35].
• Cajeput oil, [24].
• Calamus australis, [89], [103].
• Calladium, [21].
• Callistemon lanceolatum, [26].
• Calliungal, town, [30].
• Callornis metallica, [96].
• Camping out, [32].
• Camps, Herbert river hills, [148];
  • cave, [153];
  • hills in rain, [168] seq.;
  • with unpleasant bedfellow, [185] seq.;
  • no supper, [209]–211.
• Cannibalism, [101], [134], [176], [254], [273];
  • in Burma, [274].
• Canning meat, Rockhampton, [16].
• Canoona Diggings, oldest gold mine, [323].
• Capparis nobilis, [25].
• Cardamom-tree, [96].
• Cardwell, town, [66], [250], [263].
• Carpentaria, Gulf of, natives of, [273].
• Carrots, [79].
• Casuarina, [33] passim.
• Casuarius australis (cassowary), [99].
• Cat, native, [27];
  • bird, [96].
• Cattle, alarmed, [84];
  • farmers, [35].
• Cedar, red (Cedrela), [67].
• Centropus, [94].
• Ceratodus forsteri, [385].
• Ceyx pusilla, [97].
• Charters Towers, gold beds, [65].
• Child-birth, [134].
• Children, black, [192].
• Chinaman, a native, [147];
  • wife, [163];
  • treachery, [167];
  • greediness, [173];
  • rascality, [185];
  • reappearance, [231].
• Chinese hated, [36].
• Chivalry, [170].
• Chlamydodera maculata, [28].
• Chlamydosaurus kingii, [376], [384].
• Christmas in the bush, [207].
• Cicada aurora, [222].
• Cicada, evil spirit, [202];
  • humming, [217].
• Cinchona, [74].
• Clay pipes, [107].
• Cleveland Bay, [65].
• Climate, tropical, [19];
  • cold nights, [56];
  • Christmas hot, [57].
• Cloncurry, copper, [44].
• Club (nolla-nolla), [72] seq.
• Coal, [74], [366].
• Cockatoo, [27];
  • red-breasted, [35];
  • numerous, [57].
• Cocoa-nut, [21];
  • palm, [79].
• Cod, black-fish, [27].
• Coffee, [73].
• Coleoptera, [153];
  • larvæ, [154].
• Colocasia macrorhiza, [153].
• Comet river, [33].
• Conquat, loquat, guava, [79].
• Coomooboolaroo, [204], [325].
• Cordilleras, Australian, [102].
• Cormorants, [22].
• Costume, [106], [120], [129], [215].
• Cracticus nigrogularis, [94].
• Cranes, gray and blue, [22].
• Crawfish, [151].
• Crime, only, [126].
• Curr, E. M., “The Australian Race,” [307] passim.
• Customs, aboriginal, ornamental scars, [135];
  • making fire, [141];
  • breaking sticks, [141];
  • pomade and glue, [142];
  • honey water, [144];
  • rights of property, [147];
  • eating eggs, [149];
  • marriage, [164];
  • burial, [277];
  • cremation, [279].
• Cycas media, [164].
• Cyclestheria hislopi, [387].
• Cygnus atratus, [1], [22].
• Dacelo gigas, [26].
• Dactylopsila trivirgata, [220].
• Dalrymple Creek, [248];
  • Gap, [261].
• Damper, [32].
• Dancing, [236] seq.
• Daphnia lumholtzii, [386].
• Darling Downs, [21];
  • floods, [61].
• Dasyurus, [27];
  • maculatus, [174];
  • Dasyuridæ, [80].
• Date-palms, Queensland, [21].
• Dawson river, [45].
• Dee river, [30].
• Dendrolagus lumholtzii, [102];
  • caught, [226], [235];
  • mode of hunting, [231].
• Devil, [114];
  • description of, [202].
• Dialects. Vide Language.
• Diamantina river, native work, heat on, [44]–55.
• Dicæum hirundinaceum, [253].
• Diemenia, [299].
• Digitalis purpurea, [14].
• Dingo, [38];
  • use of, [99], [165], [175], [178], [179].
• Dinornis, [377].
• Dipnoi, [385].
• Diprotodon, [368].
• Dipsas fusca, [62].
• Dirge, [204].
• Discoverers and Explorers, [355]–359.
• Diseases and epidemics, [181].
• Doctor, native, [183].
• Dog and snake, [64].
• Doves, [96].
• Dress, mourning, [204].
• Drought, [37].
• Drugs, [108].
• Duboisia hopwoodii, [49].
• Dugong, [315] seq.;
  • meat, [319];
  • oil, [320];
  • habitat, [321].
• Dungeness, [66].
• Education of children, [193].
• Eels, Queensland, [23].
• Elanus axillaris (kite), [220].
• Elderslie, [44], [53].
• Elephant sugar-cane, [63].
• Elm-tree, [14].
• Emus, inquisitive, [30].
• Erysipelas, [181].
• Erythrina vespertilio (cork), [141].
• Eucalyptus, amygdalina, [9];
  • tereticornis, brachypoda, [24];
  • terminalis, polyanthemos, robusta. Vide Flora.
• Eudynamis flindersii (cuckoo), [28].
• Eurynassa australis, [93], [154].
• Evaporation in bush, [42].
• Expedition Range, [33].
• Falco subniger, [57].
• Familiarity breeds contempt, [111].
• Fauna—fossil;
  • Wallace’s line;
  • marsupials; monotremata—why most noteworthy, [376]–388 passim;
  • birds, [382]–384;
  • reptiles, [384];
  • amphibia, [384];
  • fish, barramunda, [385];
  • butterflies, [385];
  • beetles, [385].
  • Entomostraca, Professor Sars on, [385]–388.
• Feast, [85].
• Ferns, tree-, [103].
• Fever, [57].
• Ficus, elastica, [14];
  • platypoda, cunninghamii, [25].
• Fig, European, [21];
  • black, [141];
  • rarest, [208].
• Finch-Hatton, Mr., “Advance Australia,” [278].
• Fire, producing, [141].
• Fitzroy river, [16];
  • mountains, [16].
• Fleas at Elderslie, [45].
• Flora—peculiar, evergreen, flowering;
  • census of Eucalyptus, Proteaceæ, Acaciæ, Banksia, cone-bearers, and allies; grass-trees, baobab, ferns, mosses, [369]–375 passim.
• Food, [21];
  • eating children, [134];
  • beetles and larvæ, [154] passim;
  • pediculi, [117], [223];
  • fleas, [179];
  • grasshoppers, [187];
  • eel (high), [203];
  • mode of cooking, [296];
  • care of, [297].
• Frogs, [19].
• Gar-fish, [23].
• Geese, Queensland, [22].
• Gentleman, black, [84].
• Geology—mountain and river systems, primitive rock, coal-bearing strata, fossils, “desert sandstone,” volcanoes, gold, [366]–368.
• Georgina river, [128];
  • romance of, [213].
• Gidya-scrub, [37].
• Gold, passim;
  • annual production, [9];
  • region, [253];
  • mount, [324].
• Gould, [23], [171].
• Gracemere, residence in, [17], [20], [21];
  • flora and fauna, [24];
  • landscape, [26];
  • return to, [61];
  • snake story, [61].
• Grallina picata, [94].
• Granadilla, and fruit, [79].
• Grauan, jungle-hen, [149].
• Great Dividing Range, [34], [102] passim.
• Greenshank, [56].
• Grogoragally, son of the Supreme, [283].
• Guana, [79].
• Gum-tree. Vide Eucalyptus.
• Hair, cutter, [108];
  • quality, quantity of, [131].
• Handicraft, [331].
• Harpoon, [317].
• Hawks in Queensland, [62].
• Heaven and hell, [283].
• Helix cunninghamii, [27].
• Hemibelideus, a new sub-genus, [196].
• Herbert river, passim;
  • nets, [94].
• Herbert Vale, [65]–74;
  • quarters, [76];
  • abandoned for cattle station, [78];
  • keeper and Kanaka at, [80];
  • bill of fare, [81];
  • cook, [80] seq.;
  • farewell, [302].
• Hinchinbrook Island, [67].
• Historical Outline—before discovery, Discoverers and Explorers, colonisation, [353]–365.
• Holloway’s pills, [280].
• Home life among natives, [191].
• Honey, [194], [195] passim.
• Hoplocephalus, [62].
• Hornets, [38].
• Horse-racing, [7].
• Houses, North Queensland, [79].
• Humour, native, [239], [291].
• Husband, duties of, [161].
• Hyla cærulea, [18].
• Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, rare, [114].
• Idolatry non-existent, [129].
• Iguana, [53].
• Imitative faculty, [291].
• Infant colour, [132].
• Inoceramus maximus, [367].
• Irichosurus vulpecula, [11], [19], [221], [232].
• Irish shepherd, a type, [40].
• Isis Downs station, [57];
  • liquor-dealer, [60], [61].
• Itaka, ornamental tufts, [238].
• Jabiru (yabiru), [96].
• Jacaranda, Brazil, [21].
• Jackass, laughing, a kingfisher, [26], [382].
• Jacky, native attendant, [77], [92];
  • his full dress, [120];
  • at contest, [125];
  • story-teller, [256];
  • inciting to murder, [290].
• Jimmy, a native, a murderer, [245]–251, [254];
  • portrait of, [255];
  • scene of crime, [261].
• Jungle-hens, [96];
  • mound-builders, [97].
• Kadjera, poisonous palm, [164].
• Kāmin, climbing instrument, [89].
• Kanaka, [64];
  • the, [80], [124], [178], [270], [284], [290], [363].
• Kangaroo Island, [2].
• Kangaroo, larger, [29];
  • hunt, [33];
  • hard to kill, [180];
  • tree-kangaroo, see Dendrolagus lumholtzii;
  • rat, [11], [27], [29];
  • size, [327];
  • nature and nutrition of young, [379];
  • strength and boldness, [327], [328].
• Kassik, a pack-horse, [74], [138], [289];
  • bucking, [291]; falls, [301].
• Kélanmi, native girl, story of, [233] seq.
• Kidneys, eating the human, [272].
• Kingfisher, [97];
  • racket-tail, [97];
  • blue and red, [150];
  • all over the world, [382].
• Kings appointed by squatters, [336] seq.
• Kissing unknown, [213].
• Kite, [43];
  • noticeable, [57].
• Koraddan, a fruit, [165]
• Korroboree, [41], [237].
• Kusso and kamala, Abyssinian cure for tape-worm, [153].
• Kvingan, evil spirit, [201], [205].
• Ladies, white, [8];
  • in the bush, [322] seq.
• Lagoons, Valley of, [243];
  • origin of name, [253].
• Lagorchestes conspicillatus (rat), [29].
• Landscape, Australian, breathes melancholy, [209].
• Languages, all closely allied, [304];
  • comparative words for eye, [305];
  • numerals, [306], [309];
  • personal pronouns, [306];
  • common peculiarities, [306];
  • grammar, [307];
  • origin, [307];
  • comparative syntax, [307];
  • brevity of expression, [308];
  • suffix go, [308];
  • proper names, [309];
  • named from negatives, one from affirmative, Langue d’oc et oyl, [310];
  • comparative table, [311];
  • words from Herbert river, [312], [313].
• Larvæ, edible, in acacia, [153], [154] passim.
• Lathrodectus scelio (spider), [39].
• Lava, [253].
• Leaves as toy-boomerangs, [52].
• Lemons, antidote to tick-bites, [266].
• Leucopathia acquisita, [99].
• Liberality of Gongola, [180];
  • of hunter, [198].
• Livistonia, [103], [150].
• Lizard, [27], [384].
• Loquat, [79].
• Lotus-bird, [22].
• Love among natives, [213].
• Lung-fish (Ceratodus forsteri), [385].
• Mackay river, [63].
• M‘Leay’s Museum, Sydney, [14].
• Macropus, dorsalis, [29];
  • giganteus, [29].
• Magpie, Australian, [33].
• Mango, [21].
• Mangola-Maggi, a native, [258], [287].
• Mangoran, a study, [112];
  • danger from, [288] seq.
• Marriage ceremonies, [212], [213].
• Marsilea (nardu), [41].
• Marsupials, destructive to grass, [29];
  • smallest, [43].
• Mat as clothing, [169].
• Matrimony in Queensland, [60].
• Megaloprepia magnifica, [214].
• Megapodius tumulus, [149]. Vide Fauna.
• Melaleuca leucadendron, [24].
• Melbourne, [5];
  • climate, [8];
  • Queen of the South, [12].
• Melodies, native, [41], [156]–158.
• Message sticks, [303], [304].
• Miasma, [261].
• Migration of souls, [279], [282].
• Mika-operation, [47].
• Miklucho-Maclay, Baron, [47].
• Milk, rarely used in bush, [36], [57];
  • a luxury, [88].
• Minnie Downs, [31], [35];
  • farewell to, [61].
• Mitchell-grass, [37].
• Mólle-Mólle, a native tragedy, [246].
• Mongan, a mammal, [172], [215].
• Monsoons, [102].
• Moogeegally, half human, half divine, [283].
• Morbora, a native, [286].
• “More pork,” [32].
• Morelia variegata, [294].
• Moreton Bay, [16].
• Mosquito-nets, [56].
• Mosses, note on, [374], [375].
• Mound-builder, [97].
• Mount Morgan, gold, [324].
• Mountains, Blue, [15];
  • Coast; 101, [102], [116], [140];
  • Great Dividing Range, [34], [102];
  • Cordilleras, [102];
  • Sea-View Range, [121], [180];
  • annoyance from leeches, [265].
• Mourning, signs of, [203].
• Mueller, Baron F. von, [9]. Vide Flora.
• Mullagan, black giant, [129].
• Mullet, fresh-water, [23].
• Mummy, [278].
• Murder, punishment of, [45].
• Murrumbidgee, [129].
• Mūrŭp (revenant), [279].
• Music, vocal and instrumental, [156], [236].
• Musical instruments, [157].
• Myall, savage blacks, or Acacia pendula, [49], [76].
• Mycteria australis, [96].
• Mygnimia australasiæ (hornet), [38].
• Myths, South Australia, [282].
• Nardu, [41].
• Natives (Diamantina river), [44];
  • slaughter of, [53];
  • study of, [80];
  • mark of distinction, [84];
  • traits, [100];
  • cannibals, [101];
  • instinct for locality, [108];
  • terror of firearms, [108];
  • insensibility to cold, [111], [114];
  • contest, [119];
  • idea of number, [129];
  • two types of, [129];
  • voices of, [135];
  • comprehension of pictures, [154];
  • disposition of, [158];
  • occupations of, [177];
  • burial customs, [277];
  • keenness of sight, [295];
  • snake cooking, [296].
• Natives, in original condition, [104];
  • food, [106];
  • terror of darkness and devil, [114];
  • acute sense of smell, [114];
  • agility, [115];
  • morning toilet, [116];
  • height, [129];
  • dread of rain, [140];
  • as woodcutters, [148];
  • friendliness, [180].
• Nelly, the cook, [80], [178];
  • hunting, [222];
  • change in, [269];
  • bloodthirsty, [290].
• Nelumbium speciosum, [25].
• Nephrurus asper, [329].
• Ngalloa, rare animal, [220].
• Nilgora, typical savage, [223], [241], [242].
• Nocuous grasses, [23], [43].
• Nogoa river, [34].
• Nolla-nolla, club, [72], [122].
• Norseman cold in Australia, [30].
• Norwegian scheme, [8].
• Nuphar luteum, [14].
• Opals, [44].
• Opium, abuse of, [338].
• Opossum, [11], [91];
  • caught, [221];
  • thread, [332].
• Orange-groves, Parramatta river, [15];
  • trees, Queensland, [21];
  • moth, [28];
  • orchards, [79].
• Ornaments, personal, of natives, [135]–137, [238].
• Ornithorhynchus, killed, [214];
  • swimming, [253].
• Orthonyx spaldingii, [155].
• Orthoptera, [73], [151].
• Otĕro, and other relationships, [199];
  • ingratitude of Yanki’s, [209].
• Palm, lawyer, home of, [152], [172];
  • fan, [103], [150];
  • banana, [103].
• Pandanus, [95].
• Pantomime, primitive, [239].
• Papillæ mammæ cut off, [135].
• Papyrus, Egyptian, [21].
• Parasites and epiphytes, [25].
• Parra gallinacea, [22].
• Parramatta river, [15].
• Parrot, affection of, [34];
  • scarce, [94].
• Pasturage, [37].
• Peak Downs, [29], [45].
• Peculiar smell of natives, [135].
• Pediculi, [117].
• Pelargonium, Queensland, [21].
• Pelicans, Queensland, [22].
• Perch, Queensland, [23].
• Petauroides, volans, [91], [181];
  • breviceps, [208].
• Phalanger, flying, [90].
• Phascolarctus cinereus, [9].
• Phascologale minutissima, [43], [44], [294].
• Phragmites communis, [23].
• Phrictis crassipes, [38].
• Pickle-bottle, a native, [112];
  • obstinacy of, [138].
• Pigeon, Diamantina river, [43];
  • Torres Strait, [96];
  • rare, North Queensland, [208];
  • king, [214].
• Pike, gar-fish, [23].
• Pimelea hæmatostachya, [29].
• Pine-apple, Queensland, [21].
• Pipes, [113];
  • holders for, [130].
• Pitta strepitans, [27].
• Pituri, [49].
• Platycercus pulcherrimus, [34];
  • nest of, [327].
• Platypus, [30].
• Pleuro-pneumonia, [88].
• Plotus, [22].
• Podargus cuvierii, [32].
• Poisons unknown, [174].
• Police, native mounted, [46], [49];
  • cruelty of, [54];
  • native sergeant of, [251].
• Pork, aversion to, [225].
• Precarious position of author, [289] seq.
• Preparation of food, [296].
• Primitive tribe, a, [191].
• Protector of the blacks, [73];
  • murdered, [262].
• Pseudechis, black snake, [64].
• Pseudochirus, archeri, [152], [173], [266];
  • herbertensis, [173], [213];
  • lemuroides, [196].
• Ptiloris victoriæ, [171].
• Ptychosperma cunninghamii, [171].
• Punishment, [126].
• Python, Australian, [294].
• Quandang-tree, [70].
• Queensland, proportion of men to women, [59];
  • dialect of white children, [8];
  • East, [16];
  • precious metals, [44];
  • native mounted police, [46];
  • climate, [19], [57];
  • Central, [21];
  • sugar, [64];
  • natives, [68], [69];
  • Northern, blacks of, [11];
  • Western (dew), [33], [35];
  • farewell to, [61];
  • Queen’s Hotel, Townsville, [65].
• Quinine, [74].
• Rain in bush, [169], [312].
• Rats, plague of, [43];
  • method of catching, [73].
• Rape of the Sabines, [184].
• Religion, [339].
• Respect for old women, [200].
• Rice, [74].
• Rifle-bird, [171].
• Ring-barking, [9].
• Rivers, Yarra, [9];
  • Parramatta, [15];
  • Fitzroy, [16];
  • Brisbane, [16];
  • Burnett, [21];
  • Dee, [30];
  • Nogoa, [34];
  • Thompson, [40];
  • Dawson, [45];
  • Diamantina, [55];
  • Mackay, [63];
  • Boulya, [128];
  • Murrumbidgee, [129];
  • Murray, tribes on the, [284];
  • Herbert River and Vale, [66] seq.
• Rockhampton, [16];
  • botanical gardens, [17];
  • flora and fauna, [24];
  • drunkards in, [57];
  • return to, [61].
• Rock-wallabies, [253].
• Sacrifices unknown, [284].
• Sandy blight, [57].
• Scenery, passim; Herbert river, [74], [315].
• Scenopæus dentirostris (bower-bird), [139].
• Screw-palm, [95].
• Scrub, [37], [96], [102], [289];
  • stillness, [294];
  • clad mountain-tops, [302].
• Scythrops novæ-hollandiæ, [97].
• Sequoia wellingtonia, [9].
• Serpent adventure, [299].
• Sheep farmers, [35].
• Silver, [44].
• Skulls, [259];
  • measurements, [260].
• Slaughter day, [85].
• Smell of land, [2].
• Sminthopsis virginiæ, [252], [294].
• Snakes, [61], [62], [64];
  • hunting, as food, cooking, sharing, flesh-flavour, [294] seq.
• Snake-birds, [22].
• Snake bites, treatment of, [183], [298].
• Soap, natives fond of, [291].
• Spear-grass, [23].
• Spearmen, [92].
• Specimens, packing and conveying of, [300].
• Spider paralysed by hornet, [38].
• Springsure, Kangaroo hunt near, [33].
• Spruce, Australian, [21].
• Squatter’s homestead, [59].
• Squirrel, flying, [90].
• Starling, glossy, [96].
• Station, description of a, [36];
  • korroboree at Westlands, [41].
• Stigmodera (beetle), [220].
• Stinging-tree, [152].
• Stock, Queensland, [21];
  • whip, [53], [59];
  • yard, [36].
• Sugar, [64];
  • a necessary, [264];
  • cane, [75];
  • plantation, [301].
• Suttungo, tobacco, [113].
• Swamp-pheasant, [94].
• Sweet-potato, [78].
• Talegalla, [73], [97];
  • cootjari, [149];
  • rare, [208];
  • numerous, [215];
  • young, [252].
• Talgoro, [188], [271].
• Tallow, [37].
• Tamarind, [21].
• Tambo, town, [61].
• Tanysiptera, [97].
• Tattooing unknown, [137].
• Thompson, river, [40];
  • town, [56].
• Thor’s hammer and the boomerang, [52].
• Throwing-stick, [93].
• Ticks, [266].
• Tiger, marsupial, [101].
• Tin, [44].
• Torilla, its host and his family, [315], [322].
• Treachery of natives, [44], [167], [289].
• Tree-ferns, Victoria, [11];
  • North Queensland, [151].
• Trinity, idea and persons of a, [129], [283].
• Triodia irritans, [43].
• Tristiana suaveolens, [25].
• Tobacco, [73];
  • as currency, [75], [80], [106].
• Tobola, [99];
  • unbeaten, [217];
  • preparation of, [230].
• Toollah, opossum, [152].
• Topinard, Dr., on the blacks, [129].
• Torrens, Lake, [129].
• Totanus glottis, [56].
• Towdala, a bird, [155].
• Townsville, [65] passim.
• Turkey, brush, [73].
• Uromys, [294].
• Veera, a fig, [208].
• Venereal and other diseases, [182].
• Victoria, working-class influence, [8].
• Vine-scrub, [26].
• Vines, Queensland, [21].
• Vitiligo, white spots, [99].
• Vitis climatidea, [26].
• Vondo, a root, [207].
• Wader, [96].
• Wallaby, [29];
  • hunting, [91]–94;
  • rock, [209];
  • feeding, [209].
• Wardrobe, author’s, [108].
• Water-hen, [27];
  • iguana, [155];
  • lilies, blue, [22].
• Water, precious in bush, [39];
  • bad in the interior, [42].
• Waverley station, Gracemere, [62].
• Weapons, [120], [127], [332] seq.
• Weaver-bird, [70], [96].
• Western river, [44].
• Westwood, [27];
  • rats at, [44].
• Windex station, hospitality at, [43].
• Winter, [293].
• Winton, [56], [59].
• Witchcraft of strangers, [298].
• Wives, native, [163].
• Wizards, [279];
  • producing rain, [282].
• Women, seldom seen, [59];
  • timidity of, [91];
  • condition of, [100];
  • old, at contests, [124];
  • matrimonial changes, [127];
  • beards, [131];
  • personal appearance of, [132];
  • child-birth, [134];
  • ornamental scars improper, [137];
  • occupation of, [160];
  • greatest crime, [162];
  • patience of, [192];
  • destined from birth, [221];
  • infanticide and cannibalism among, [254], [272];
  • rough nurses, [257].
• Wood exported from Queensland, [67].
• Wood-swallow, [28].
• Xanthorrhæa, [373].
• Xylomelum pyriforme, [369].
• Yabby, a new phalanger, [196].
• Yamina, a monster, [201].
• Yanki, a rare fig, [208];
  • a man’s name, [209].
• Yarra river, [5].
• Yarri, tiger, [101], [117], [151], [266].
• Yokkai, a native attendant, [214];
  • word-portrait of, [217], [219], [235], [242], [243], [289];
  • the only faithful black, [290];
  • ascends Kassik the pack-horse, [290], [291];
  • washes for cooking, [291];
  • rewarded, [300];
  • farewell to, [302].
• Yopolo, [114].
• York, Cape, [102].
• Zoologists, a family of, [323] seq.

FINIS

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