s, and who, when the game is killed, will help
to light the fire in which it is to be cooked, and drag it to the
resting-place, where the father romps with the little ones until the meal
is prepared, and that all this takes place in a climate so mild and
genial that a house is not necessary, we shall perhaps the less wonder
that it should be so difficult to induce a savage to embrace the customs
of civilized life.

There is nothing peculiar in their mode of killing wild dogs; puppies are
of course the greatest delicacy, and are often feasted on; they sometimes
however save these in order to keep them in a domesticated state, and in
this case one of the elder females of the family suckles them at her own
breast and soon grows almost as fond of them as of children. A dog is
baked whole in the same manner as a kangaroo; it is laid on its back in
the hole in the heated sand, and its nose, fore-paws and hind-paws are
left sticking out of the ashes which are scraped over it, so that it
bears rather a ludicrous appearance.

MODE OF KILLING TURTLE AND COCKATOOS.

The green turtle are surprised by the natives on the beach when they come
to lay their eggs, and are very rarely taken much to the south of Shark
Bay, but freshwater turtle are extremely abundant, and are in high season
about December and January. At this time the natives assemble near the
freshwater lakes and lagoons in large numbers; these natural reservoirs
are then shrunk to their lowest limits from evaporation and other causes,
and are thickly overgrown with reeds and rushes. Among these the natives
wade with stealthy pace, so stealthy that they even creep upon wild-fowl
and spear them. The habits of the turtle are to swim lazily along near
the surface of the water, about half immersed, biting and smelling at the
various aquatic plants which they pass, and turning their long ungainly
necks in all directions. When alarmed by the approach of a native the
turtle instantly sinks to the bottom like a stone, and its pursuer,
putting out his foot, the toes of which he uses to seize anything, just
as we do our fingers, gropes about with it in the weeds, until he feels
the turtle, and then, holding it to the ground, plunges his hands and
arms in and seizes his prey. I have known two or three of them to catch
fourteen turtle, none of which weighed less than one, and many of them as
much as two or three pounds, in the course of a very short time.

These freshwater turtle