The American Xatumllst. 



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but it was too quick; so I took a shovel and began to dig 

 after it, but could not get him. 



" < One of the men then came with another shovel and also a 

 lubra (aboriginal female) who scratched, but the three of us 

 failed to get him.' Making all allowances for possible misdi- 

 rected energies in this experiment, there is no doubt hut that 

 their burrowing powers are remarkable. Mr. Bishop, who 

 knew of my approach, made great efforts to keep alive for me 

 some of those lie had captured, and placed them for safe keep- 

 ing in buckets of sand, but in spite of all care and attention 

 one only lived as long as four days. Night and day the sound 

 of their ceaseless burrowing was to be heard. Acting on my 

 advice, previously given, in consequence of an examination of 

 the contents of the intestines of one of the earlier specimens, 

 he supplied them with ants as food, but they ate none. They 

 did. however, eat one < witchety,' the native name of large 



which are the larval forms of certain Longicorn beetles and 



states that the natives have 

 'devil-devil;' but I could 



