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„ There are hut venj jew allusions to the use hy the hlacks of the 
all-pervading eucalyptuS’Vegetation for fish-catching, The earliest 
I can find is hy Sir Thomas Mitchell (Three Expeditions^ II, 24)^ 
who says, in speaking of the Lachlan: „There the river contained 
some deep pools, and we expetecd to catch flsh, hut the hlack inter- 
preter told us that the holes had heen recently poisoned, a process 
adopted hy the natives in dry seasons AU these holes were f uil 
of recently cut houghs of the eucalyptus, so that the water was 
iinged hlack2'‘ Speaking of the hlacks of the interior of Queensland, 
Mr. E. Palmer says, the small branches of Eucalyptus microtheca 
F. V. M., the „CoolihaJd' or „Flooded Box'\ are cut up^ and ivith 
the leaves are laid in water for several days to sicken the fsh', it 
is universally used for the purpose. It is very likely that this is the tree 
referred to hy Sir Th. Mitchell.” (Maiden, Fish-poisons of the 
Australian aborigines, in Agric. Gaz. of N. S. Wales Y (1894), 472). 
N®. 179. Eucalyptus 
„In the Cloncurry, Woonaumurra, and Leichhard-Selwyn Districts, 
especially with large water-holes, numerous leafy houghs and branches 
of „gumUree'' (1) {Mitakoodi: joo-a~ro) are utilised for capturing 
fish, The whole camp of hlacks working at it, tvill start throwing 
these in first thing in the morning, during theday the water hecomes 
darker and darker and strongly smelting until hy the folloiving 
morning at sunrise ivhen it is almost hlack, the fish all lie panting 
at the surface and are easily caught2' (Walter E. Roth, Ethnol. 
Stud. Queensland Aborigines, 1897, p. 95, § 126). 
Lecythis lanceolata Pom. Zaden narcotisch. 
L. amara Aubl. 
Eugenia Jambos L. De wortel geldt voor giftig (?) op Réunion. 
Baeckea frutescens L. Abortivum. 
Psidium montanum Sw. Jamaica. Vruchten rieken naar bitter- 
amandel-olie. 
(1) Blijkbaar is hier niet de voorgaande soort E. microtheca F. v. M. 
bedoeld, daar Roth herhaaldelijk van den boom met dienzelfden inl. naam, 
Coolibar, spreekt, volgens hem E, hicolor A. Cunn., doch van dezen wèl het 
gebruik der zaden als voedsel aangeeft, doch hem niet als vischvergift noemt. 
De „White gumtred^ van Queensland is Eucalyptus haemastoma Sw. 
