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CHAPTER XII. 



Native dogs — Their tenacity of life — Return to Yas Plains — 

 The Australian raspberry — Native cherry-tree — The sum- 

 mer season — Tree hoppers — Their clamour — Gannets — 

 Country about the Tumat river — Bugolong — The Black 

 range — A storm — Vicinity of rivers — Native blacks — - 

 Their costume and weapons — Wheat-fields — Destructive 

 birds — Winding course of the Murrumbidgee. 



Three dingos, or native dogs, (the " Warragul" 

 of the aborigines, Canis Australasise, Dem.*) 

 were seen about the hills at " Gudarigby," and 

 the howling of the kangaroo dogs during the 

 night, was the first indication of their prowling 

 about ; they are the wolves of the colony, and 

 are perhaps unequalled for cunning. These 



•K But little doubt exists in the minds of naturalists that 

 this animal is not indigenous to Australia ; its not being met 

 with in Van Dieman's Land (when all the other genera 

 peculiar to Australia are found there) will rather tend to 

 confirm the hypothesis. 



