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( d) At the Cloncurry River, Queensland, Sesbania agyptiaca, Pers., and 
Ventilago viminalis, Hooker (see Part IX, p. 190, of this work), are the woods used. 
Grass-tree stems are used as the rotatory pieces in at least three States, viz. :— 
( e ) Sydney District (Port Jackson). (See Mann, Proc. Geogr. Son. Austr. 
N.S. TV. and Viet. Br., 1895, i, p. 28.) 
(/) Gippsland, Victoria. (See Ilowitt, in Smyth, loc. nit., p. 393, footnote.) 
(g) Omeo River, Victoria. (See Helms, Proc. Linn. Son. N.S.W.,' 1895, 
x (2), p. 396.) 
( h ) Boyne Island, Port Curtis, Queensland. Blower-stalk of Xanthorrhoea 
avborea, R.Br. (See Hedley, Proc. Roy. Son. Qld., 1888, v, pt. i, p. 13.) 
(j) Burnett River District, Queensland. Dry ripe head of the flower-stalk 
powdered between the hands and used as tinder. (See Hughan in Smyth, op. cit., 
p. 395, footnote.) 
( k ) Cape York, south to Bitzroy River. Blower-stalk of Xanthorrhoea 
arborea, R.Br. 
( l ) On the Lachlan and Darling Rivers, New South Wales. Quandong 
wood ( Fusanus acuminatus) (see p. 97, Part IV of this work) is used as the 
knife-piece. (See Bennett, “ Descriptive list of Australian aboriginal weapons in 
the Australian Museum,” 1887, p. 4.) 
Method 1 or Method 3 (?)— 
(m) Blinders and Mitchell Rivers, Queensland. Clerodendron Jioribundum, 
R.Br. “ Two dried sticks of this plant are used for drills to make fire with.” 
Ventilago viminalis, Hooker. “They use two sticks of the same wood for making 
fire with.” (See Palmer, Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S. TV., 1883, xvii, p. 108.) 
(n) Clerodendron inerme, ll.Br., Pennefather River, Queensland. 
(o) Clerodendron jioribundum, R.Br., Upper Cloncurry River, Queensland. 
(p) Pmrnna Pallachyana, Benth., Endeavour Paver to Princess Charlotte 
Bay, Queensland. 
(q) Premna obtusifolia, R.Br., Pennefather and Tully Rivers, Queensland. 
(r) Psychotria sp., Mitchell River Queensland. 
[The references to c, d, k, n, o, p, q are Roth, “ North Queensland Ethnography ” {Bull. No. 7, 
p. 10, 1904.)] 
SUPPLEMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
(a) Scene in the Narrandera (Riverina) country, New South Wales. The logs on the truck (note the 
wooden wheels) are Black Pine (CaUitris calcarata). The growing trees are Box (.Eucalyptus 
hemiphloia, F.v.M. var. microcarpa, Maiden). 
(b) Collecting mining props (Ironbark) in the Wyong District for the Newcastle coal-mines. 
(c) Spare-chaining log in the bush, Wyong, New South Wales. The log is Blue Gum (Eucalyptus 
saligna). 
(d) Loading piles at Wyong, New South Wales. The piles are Ironbark ( Eucalyptus panicidala) 
and Turpentine (Syncarpia laurifolia ) ; those with bark on. 
(All F. A. Kirton, photo.) 
