HE Blackman is a native of Australia. 

 At one time thousands of these savages 

 roamed over this Southern Land and were 

 then its only possessors. They lived in camps 

 made of the bark and branches of trees, which 

 they called "Gunyahs" or "Wurleys," and 

 hunted in the forests with boomerang and spear, 

 for the different animals which served them for 

 food. They fished in the streams and rivers, 

 over which they paddled in their frail bark 

 canoes called " Bokko yakko." In the bright 

 moonlight they danced the Corrobboree, and 

 sang their wild songs of joy and freedom. 



