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the eye and hand enabling the native to net with 
the utmost regularity, speed, and neatness. 
The nets for hunting, for carrying their effects or 
food, for making belts for the waist, or bandages for 
the head, are all made from the tendons or fur of 
animals, or from the fibres of plants. In the former, 
the sinews of the kangaroo or emu, and the fur of 
opossums and other similar animals, are used ; in the 
latter, a species of rush, the fibres of the root of the 
mallow, the fibres of the root of the broad flag- 
reed, &c. and in some parts of the continent, the 
fibrous bark of trees. The materials are prepared 
for use by being soaked in water and carded with 
the teeth and hands, or by being chewed or 
rubbed. 
String is made by the fibres being twisted, and 
rubbed with the palm of the hand over the naked 
thighs, and is often as neatly executed as English 
whip-cord, though never consisting of more than 
two strands, — the strands being increased in thickness 
according to the size of the cord that may be required. 
Nets vary in size and strength according to the 
purposes for which they are required ; the duck net 
(kew-rad-ko) has already been described, as also the 
kenderanko, or small net for diving for fish, and the 
taendilly net, for diving with under the rocks for 
the larger fish ; the kenyinki is a net with very small 
meshes, and set out with a wooden bow, for catching 
shrimps and other very small fish. There are also, a 
wharrd, a large hoop-net for catching small cray- 
