May 6, 1911. J 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
683 
UNIQUE HUNTING METHODS. 
‘‘One afternoon when I was quite a small boy 
living in the heart of the Australian bush,” says 
a writer in the American Boy, “a black fellow, 
his wife and their two children were camped 
near the creek which ran through our farm 
They had just arrived and were both tired and 
hungry. 
So the black fellow walked down to the edge 
of the creek, and had a look around. Soon he 
saw a pair of wild turkeys, or bustards, feeding 
quietly along a wide open space and about 800 
yards away. Now, wild turkeys are very good 
eating, but they are very shy birds and difficult 
to get near. 
"I he black fellow had no gun, but had three 
boomerangs, four spears and a club called the 
nulla nulla. I watched him carefully to see 
what he would do. He took the three boom¬ 
erangs and the nulla nulla. Then he broke 
several branches of a neighboring tree and 
swam quietly across the creek. On the other 
side he skirted around the edge of the clearing, 
getting as close to the turkeys as lie could 
under cover. 
I soon lost sight of him and kept my eyes 
on the turkeys. After about a quarter of an 
hour I suddenly noticed well out on the clear- 
ing a bunch of shrubbery. Watching it care¬ 
fully, I saw that it was gradually approaching 
the birds. It never moved except when the 
birds had their heads down feeding. 
At last it got so close that the turkeys 
noticed it, but beyond a good stare they paid 
no further attention to it. Nearer and nearer 
it approached until it was only about twenty 
yards away. I hen with a jump that made me 
start the black fellow sprang up from behind 
the boughs and, running in to the birds, threw 
hxs boomerang at them. He seemed to hit both 
of them, but one flew away all the same. The 
other one, however, was disabled and the black 
fellow soon finished it off with his club. 
It is the fashion to speak contemptuously of 
the intellect of the Australian blacks; certainly 
in some respects they are very deficient. I 
never met one, for example, that could count 
more than five, and most of them can only 
count up to three. But, as hunters they are 
extremely skilful, very patient, and possessed of 
a great fund of knowledge regarding the habits 
of the game they pursue. 
“I have seen them catch ducks in much the 
same manner as the turkey was caught. The 
hunter, with a bundle of reeds, or other aquatic 
vegetation, slips quietly into the edge of the 
lake or lagoon or river, and either wades or 
swims, with the vegetation on his head, noise¬ 
lessly up to the ducks. Then, one after another 
he quietly but swiftly pulls them under water, 
where he strangles them and attaches them to 
his belt. 
. “It would be thought that the ducks would 
either call out or flap their wings and so alarm 
their mates; but the black fellow does his work 
so smartly that the duck is underneath the water 
before it has time to do anything. 
The kangaroo is stalked in quite a different 
and rather a peculiar manner. Finding where 
there is a kangaroo, feeding alone if possible, 
the black fellow crawls as close as he can to 
him. His weapons this time are two spears. 
When there is no more cover he waits until the 
kangaroo has its head down and is nibbling the 
grass. _ Then he stands up beside a tree and in 
full view of the kangaroo but absolutely 
motionless. 
“The kangaroo looks up, but seeing nothing 
moving, resumes feeding. The black fellow 
then takes a few slow and very cautious steps 
toward the animal, dragging his two spears 
carefully through the grass with his toes. The 
moment the kangaroo stops feeding he be¬ 
comes immovable, standing, with his hands at 
his side, like a thin black stump. 
“This strategy goes on for perhaps twenty 
minutes, at the end of which the black fellow 
is probably within ten yards of his prey. Then, 
like a lightning flash, he bends for his spears’ 
and one after the other they are flung quiver¬ 
ing into the flanks of the kangaroo. The ani¬ 
mal bounds off, but the black fellow follows 
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