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When the birds have got within the water lines, the whole 
enmeshed birds. It is but seldom that any escape out of the toils to 
warn their fellow emus of the fate to which they are all liable if 
due care and unwearied watchfulness be not continually exercised. 
s many as a dozen emus are frequently taken at one time in 
this manner, when of course there is nothing but feasting thought 
of in the camp for many succeeding days, or indeed as long as 
their supply lasts, or till it becomes putrid, which is not by any 
eans an uncommon result after successful hunting expeditions. 
Or NEts: 
Their construction, and methods of application. Weirs how contrived, 
d of what utility. 
Duck nets are usually 100 yards long, by 2 yards deep. In 
making these nets, the aborigines do not use a gauge, as 1s 
usual with Europeans—they simply judge of the size by the 
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Nets for taking crawfish are only 10 feet long, with a width of 
2 yards, the mesh being only a quarter of an inch wide. These 
however, are made entirely by the men, with the exception of the 
flax preparation, that part of the business being generally per- 
formed by the w . : 
When a duck-trapping expedition has been arranged, all in the 
cainp—men, women, and children—get in motion early in the 
morning and start off to the lagoon which has been selected for 
the scene of their operations. 
On their arrival at, or rather near the lagoon, the women make 
& Sort of impromptu camp, where they, together with the children 
