INDEX 



ABORIGINALS, Australian, 33-34, 35, 



206 



Activity of the devil, 188 

 Adventurous life, desire for, 1 

 Aegotheks insignis pulcher, 128 

 Alcohol in tropical climates, 40, 48, 



91 



Alligator Point, 33 

 Amido, 39 



Angabunga River, 139 

 Antherea, 98 

 Antipodes, life in, 38 

 Aola, 181 



Arsenic for skins, 27 

 Astrapia splendidissima, 221 

 Attacks by Isurava natives, 167 

 Australian aboriginals, 33, 34, 35, 



206 

 aboriginal, expert water-finder, 



206 



weather-wise, 33 



cattle-man, 10 



scnibmen, 29 



summer, 17 



swan, 164 



" Back country,'* the, 16, 17 

 Barnard, the Messrs., 5, 6, 8, 10, 21, 



22, 27, 39, 73, 74 

 Barnard Island Rifle Bird, 32 

 Barnard's Station, 198 

 Be"che-de-mer, 42 

 Beri-beri, 217, 227, 228, 229 

 Biagi, 161 

 Billabong, 18 

 Birds hunt moths, 144 



never hunt butterflies, 144 



Birds of Paradise, 32, 37, 49, 99, 



122, 132, 149, 150, 162, 163, 213, 



225 



Black-soil plains, 12 

 Bladensburg ranges, 18 

 Bloodshed sometimes necessary, 55 

 Bloomfield river, 34 

 " Blossom trees,' 1 105 



Bornean canoes, 213 

 Bougainville, 101, 135, 136, 181, 183, 

 184 



kingfisher, 135 



Bower-birds, 122, 149, 150 



birds* playgrounds, 151 



Bramble Cay, 201, 202 



sea-birds, 201 



Branding cattle, 9 



British Ornithologists* Union, 200 



Buna Bay, 177 



Burgees, 83 



Burns, Philp & Co., 210 



Bush, the, 11 



" Bush lawyer," 159 



Bushworker, the, 13 



Butterflies and creeks, 124 



habits of, 151 



successful lure for, 125 



Butterfly breeding, 175 

 Bwoidunna, 114, 121, 125 



Cairns, 168 



" Calliope," cutter, 85, 89, 107, 108, 



111 



Cannibalism, 54, 89, 93, 102, 145, 169 

 Canoe accident, 212 

 Cape York, 30, 100 

 Carpentaria, Gulf of, 23 

 Carriers, women, 117 

 Carrion iguana, 29 

 Cassowary, 138 

 Cattle camp, 8 



country, 12 



friendships, 8 



life, 7, 14 



Cedar Bay, 35, 38, 63 

 Charagia, 98 



eugyna, 162 



marginatus misimanus, 86 



mirablis, 37, 62 



" Charm," cutter, 77 

 Charm of the jungle, 199 

 Chibia carbonaria dejecta, 93 

 Chiefs 5 head-dresses, 123 



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