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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#32 - AUSTRALIA
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
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| AUSTRALIA. |
| AUSTRALIA,
which only forty years ago was a
penal colony, since that time has
risen to be a great commercial
power. The native Bushman has
been driven far inland, and the
march of civilization has built
up many beautiful cities and
villages The white inhabitants
are for the greater part of
English extraction. They possess
therefore most of the
characteristics of the English
race, but are freer and more
rough and ready. |
| Their
sports and games are many, being
the best adapted from civilized
nations for a temperate climate.
In cricket, boating and boxing,
few nations are their superiors. |
| The
Boomerang is an invention of the
native Australian. It is used as
a missile and is a flat curved
piece of wood, which when held by
one end and thrown, moves in a
curve and can be made to return
to the place from which it
started. It is used both as a
weapon by the natives and as an
aid to sport. |
| Kangaroos
and rabbits infest the land. Both
the natives and the farmers are
adepts in hunting them. The
farmers institute Kangaroo and
Rabbit Drives. They gather in
numbers with droves of native
dogs and scour a large circle of
territory, closing in on their
prey, many of which are killed,
while those which escape, flee
from the neighborhood. The
natives employ the boomerang in
killing kangaroos and rabbits. |
| The
natives employ the branches of
certain trees as a primitive
merry-go-round. On these,
attaching ropes, they swing round
and round. |
| Fishing
and hunting are the inevitable
sports of the Australian whose
waters abound in fish and whose
jungles afford excellent game for
the sportsmen. |
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NOTE: To see non-Arbuckle usage of this
supposedly copyrighted Arbuckle illustration,
click  here.
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