THE KANGAROO. 63 



is there no callosity at all on the under side of the tail, 

 but there is finer fur. 



If the tail were used, as some writers have told us, 

 there would not only be no hair, but it would be 

 very much calloused. In neither case is this so. 



We walked a mile next morning to see a tame one. 

 I particularly watched his locomotion, and my notions 

 respecting the matter were fully confirmed the tail 

 is merely a balance. 



They are very easily tamed, and when tamed are 

 very affectionate. They can be taught quite as easily 

 as one can teach a dog. 



Give him his tin cup and tell him to go for milk, 

 and he will take the cup in his fore-paws and leap 

 away for it quite as fast as a boy will run. 



They feed upon grass, and for this reason they are 

 hunted and destroyed by the sheep and cattle owners. 

 This enmity towards them, on the part of the graziers, 

 will end by-and-bye in their complete destruction. 

 They are rapidly disappearing from all the older set- 

 tlements. 



They are marsupials, i.e., they carry their young in 

 a pouch. 



We saw in the Zoological Gardens at Melbourne a 

 white female kangaroo feeding quite near us ; and as 

 we stood looking at her a young one, about the size of 



