Part 27 (1/2)

1849 J P Townsend, `Rambles in New South Wales,' p 39:

”This instru, is made of wood, and is much like the blade of a sciland as a plaything for children”

1850 J B Clutterbuck, `Port Phillip in 1849,' p 57:

”The boo is an extraordinary missile, formed in the shape of a crescent, and when propelled at an object, apparently point blank, it turns in any direction intended by the thrower, so that it can actually be directed in thisby his side The consureatly depends upon the round when thrown”

1865 W Howitt, `Discovery in Australia,' vol ii p 107;

”He [Sir Tho principle of the boo of the Australian natives”

1867 G G McCrae, `Balladeadro,' p 25:

”While circling thro' the air there sang The swift careering boo”

1888 A Seth, `Encyclopaedia Britannica,' vol xxiv p 530, col 2:

”He [Archbishop Whately] was an adept in various savage sports, ”

1889 P Beveridge, `Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina,' p 49:

”Boo the shape of a parabola, about eighteen inches or two feet long fro on the thin side Of the broad sides of the htly convex, the other is flat The thin sides are worked down finely to blunt edges The peculiar curve of theto the feet of the thrower It is a dangerous instrument in a hly seasoned by fire It is therefore nearly as hard as flint”

1890 C Lu Cannibals,' p 49:

[A full description of the use of the boo is a curved, somewhat flat, and slender weapon, alow (Acacia excelsa), or Myall (Acacia pendula), but the best one I found was , which often approaches a right angle, must be natural, and in the wood itself One side is perfectly flat, and the other slightly rounded The ends are pointed”

1890 G W Rusden, `Proceedings, Royal Colonial Institute,' vol

xxii p 62:

”You hardly ever see an allusion in the English Press to the boo which does not refer to it as a weapon of hich returns to the throhereas the returning boo which is a weapon of war does not return to the thrower There are --soa, which is framed only for amusement If a native had no other ht of ducks Its circular course, however, makes it unfit for such a purpose, and there is a special booht course, and a native could throw it more than two hundred yards”

1892 J Fraser, `The Aborigines of New South Wales,' p 69:

”The na; but, considered ety, for the root of it is bu, are all of theus,' July 1, p 8, col 7:

”`I tell you, sir,' said Mr Healy at an Irish politicalin this city precedents which will soary</hw>, n the tree-kangaroo of North Queensland, a e wallaby, Dendrolagus luaray = Red Kangaroo, in Governor Hunter's vocabulary of the Port Jackson dialect (1793)

1890 C Luaroo is without coaroo The fore-feet, which are nearly as perfectly developed as the hind-feet, have large crooked clahile the hind-feet are soh not so powerful The sole of the foot is somewhat broader and more elastic on account of a thick layer of fat under the skin In soft ground its footprints are very similar to those of a child The ears are s as the body of the ani and beautifulUpon the whole the boongary is the most beautiful oes out only in the night During the day it sleeps in the trees, and feeds on the leaves”

<hw>Bora</hw>, n a rite aines of eastern Australia; the cerehts of iven by Ridley,cereround, where the ceremonies take place