https://padlet.com/jtaylor67/rxvjfssh5y6n Kirsty Murray’s ‘Topsy-Yurvy World: How Australian Animals Puzzled Early Explorers’. en-us 2016-11-04 01:07:52 UTC 2016-11-04 03:16:14 UTC hello@padlet.com jtaylor67 https://padlet.com/jtaylor67/rxvjfssh5y6n/wish/135279786 Author: Kirsty Murray


]]> 2016-11-04 03:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jtaylor67/rxvjfssh5y6n/wish/135279786 jtaylor67 https://padlet.com/jtaylor67/rxvjfssh5y6n/wish/135279874 Their principal food consists of fish -- they in general eat raw -- Sometimes they feast upon the Kangaroo, but I believe them to be too stupid & indolent a set of people to be able often to catch them: from the appearance of many of the lofty trees we saw, some way up the Country having regular steps chop'd at abt. 2 foot asunder in the Bark of the tree quite up to the top where the tree begins to branch out, there is reason to suppose they mount these wt. large stones where they lie in ambush till some Kangaroos come under to graze when they heave the stone upon them & kill them. There are great Nos. of Kangaroos but so extremely shy that 'tis no easy matter to get near enough to them even to shoot them -- & very few in comparison of the great numbers there are, were shot during our stay at New Holland. As there is a most exact print of this uncommon Animal in Capt. Cook's Acct. of this Country I shall not take the trouble to describe it. (Journal Entry from Arthur Bowes Smyth, First Fleet, 1788).]]> 2016-11-04 03:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jtaylor67/rxvjfssh5y6n/wish/135279874