AMERICANS WHO USE THE BOOMERANG.
"That is true as to the return-boomerang," said Doctor Bronson when Fred read the foregoing account, "but not of the non-returning one. According to those who have carefully studied the subject, such a weapon was used by the ancient Egyptians and by the Dravidian races of India. The Moqui Indians of Arizona and New Mexico have a form of boomerang for killing rabbits, and a similar weapon is said to be used by some of the tribes of California Indians. The Moqui boomerang resembles the Australian one in its general shape, but it is not a returning one. It gyrates along the surface of the ground and is fatal to a rabbit twenty-five or thirty yards away."
"There's something else peculiar to Australia that you've forgotten," remarked the Doctor, after a slight pause.
PLATYPUS, OR DUCK-BILLED MOLE.
"What is that?"
"It is the platypus, or duck-billed mole," said the Doctor, "the paradoxical animal of Australia."