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CHAPTER XV. 



Kangaroo bunt — Ferocity of that animal — Use of its tendons 

 — The culinary parts — Haunts of the kangaroo — A death 

 struggle — Dissection of a kangaroo — Preservation of hu- 

 man fat — Ascent of trees in pursuit of game — Parrots 

 and cockatoos — The emu — The native porcupine — Species 

 of ophthalmia, termed the blight — Leave the Tumat 

 country — Banks of the Murrumbidgee — Aborigines — 

 Water gum-tree — Kangaroo rat — The fly-catcher — The 

 satin bird — Sheep stations — Colonial industry. 



On arriving at the plain, having the dogs 

 with us, we started a kangaroo ;* (the common 



* The natives name the kangaroo " Bundar and Wum- 

 buen," but have separate names for each species. At Goul- 

 burn Plains the red species is called " Eran and Warru ;" 

 and, although the language of the different tribes vary in other 

 respects, there is often a similarity of the names of animals 

 among them, each having two or three distinctive appellations, 

 which may have been the cause of so much confusion existing 

 among this genus of the mammalia ; for Mr. Ogilby, who 

 devoted much time and research to the marsupial quad- 

 rupeds of Australia, correctly observes respecting the kan- 



