KANGAROO. — Macrojjus major. 



Among the largest of the pouched animals is the well-known Kangaroo. It has 

 long been celebrated for its curious method of leaping, and for its great speed. 



As the Kangaroo is a valuable animal, not only for the sake of its skin, but on 

 account of its flesh, which is in some estimation among the human inhabitants of 

 the same land, it is eagerly sought after by hunters, both white and black, and 

 affords good sport to both on account of its speed, its vigour, and its wariness. 

 The native hunter, who trusts chiefly to his own cunning and address for stealing 

 unobserved upon the animal and lodging a spear in its body before it is able to 

 elude its subtle enemy, finds the Kangaroo an animal which will test all his 

 powers before he can attain his object, and lay the Kangaroo dead upon the 

 ground. 



The full-grown male Kangaroo is popularly called the Boomer, and is much 

 hunted by the white colonists. 



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