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recounted in a charming- book, ''The Confessions of a 

 Beachcomb.er. " This was first published in 1908, and re- 

 printed in 1910, and again in 1913. The following quota- 

 tions are from the 1913 reprint : 



Generally unprogressive and miinvenlive, the aboriginals of Iho coast 

 of Xoith Queensland apph i)ractioalh the result of the obsenation ot a 

 certain fact in the life history of a fish to obtain food. By them the 

 sn. k< I ( KM.io.a) IS not lejiaided as an mteiestm- example of a fish . . , 



Otlid .nuuiiii. hn. su(k,, fivl, ot dilt.HMit torm; but it remained 

 fot ih( 1). iiuii, 1 VuMMlnnbluk^ niin,,^ i |,u othei -^ax aae i aces to 



Having located the haunts of a remora the blacks feed 

 it from day to day until its shyness is worn off, and then 

 catch it with a hook. 



When iva.lv lo hunt for turtle, tlic natives aniicd with 

 speais go out in tlidi haik < .iiioc to the liottoni of which 

 one of the suckinu' h-li is aUaclied by its sucker. AVhen 

 they reach a locality wlicic turtle abound, they soon get 



