WALLABIE HUNTING. 
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circuit, now begin to beat amongst the bushes with 
the wind, shouting and driving the wallabies before 
them towards the nets, where they are caught and 
killed. 
Other species of the wallabie burrow in the ground 
like rabbits, and are dug out. The large rock-wal- 
labies are speared by the natives creeping upon them 
stealthily among the rugged rocks which they fre- 
quent, on the summits of precipitous heights which 
have craggy or overhanging cliffs. 
In making runs for taking the wallabie, the 
natives break the branches from the bushes, and lay- 
ing them one upon another, form, through the scrubs, 
two lines of bush fence, diverging from an apex some- 
times to the extent of several miles, and having at 
intervals large angles formed by the fence diverging. 
At the principal apex and at all the angles or cor- 
ners the bushes are tied up, and a hole in the fence 
left like the run of a hare. At each of these a native 
is stationed with his bwirris, and the women then 
beating up the country, from the base of the triangle 
drive up the game, which finding themselves stopped 
by the bush fence on either side, run along in search 
of an opening until the first angle presents itself, 
when they try to escape by the run, and are knocked 
on the head by the native guarding it. 
Native companions and swans are sometimes 
speared or killed with bwirris ; the flatter are also 
caught easily in the water holes or lakes when 
moulting, as they are then unable to fly. Pelicans are 
