The Aborigines of Western Australia

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In addition to their culinary duties the women have to dig for the various roots they dress for their husbands, and they become very expert in this occupation. When found the roots are sometimes pounded and mixed with a kind of earth, and sometimes roasted plain.
The By-yu nut is also collected and eaten with relish, which proves the great difl'erence which exists Ijetween the Australian and the European stomach, for so violent a cathartic is this nut, that some of Captain Cook's crew who ate i
...t nearly paid for their exjierience with their lives. There is, however, a pulp which encases the inner kernel, which, after certain preparation, can be used as an agreeable and nutritious article of food. Besides those I have glanced at there are innumerable other native dishes, products of the earth and of the chase, with which I will not trouble my courteous reader.
The Australian is a very thick headed person, and hardness of the native skull is strongly brought home to the European, who for the first time sees him using his head, as Ave sometimes use the thigh, to break obstinate pieces of stick across.


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