The poor emus had got down into the creek amongst the lignum bushes for a little shade .
Owing to emus feeding on the seeds of this and other species.
A great many emuswere seen during our ride, and I wounded one with my rifle, but did not get it.
No emus or kangaroos were to be seen anywhere, and the whole region around wore a singularly wild and deserted aspect.
I have seen no Emus in North-western Australia, but on two occasions their tracks were impressed in the mud on some plains lying on the banks of Glenelg River; and Mr. Dring, of H.
We saw no tracks of natives and only a few of emus and native dogs.
Neither fish nor muscles remained in the creek, nor emus nor kangaroos on the plains.
Both emus and kangaroos were seen, though not in any considerable numbers, but our dogs were not in a condition to run, and were all but killed by the extreme heat of the weather.
Their chief food is fish, of which they have great supplies in the river; still they have their seasons for hunting their emus and kangaroos.
He's set the emus loose," Betty told them as they ran, "and emus are like bloodhounds for scenting you out.
And Betty took to her bare heels and ran--ran as though her grandfather and all his emus were after her.
There were numerous kangaroos and emus on the plain, but they preferred to leave us in undisturbed possession of it.
A mob of emus came to inspect us, and Mr. Tietkens shot one in a fleshy part of the neck, which rather helped it to run away at full speed instead of detaining, so that we might capture it.
There was a watering-place about two miles and a half south from here, where emus used to water, and where the horses did likewise; there they found all the horses.
We saw numbers of kangaroos, and emus too, but could get no shots at them.
Turning to Dot it said, "You will be able to tell the big Humans that we Emus are not such fools as they think, and that we find their flocks of silly sheep most useful and entertaining animals.
But I heard," said the Kangaroo, "that Emus were protected by the Government.
All the female emus of one neighbourhood deposit their eggs in one place, and the chickens are hatched by the sun's heat, without any other care.
They believe that the souls both of men and emus inhabit subterraneous tents.
There is scarcely any Indian town in which you do not see tame emus of this kind.
Two stately emus were walking along in single file, the male bird leading, holding his head erect, and marching like the drum-major of a regiment of Guards.
Now and again a few wandering emus would cross the grey gum plains around us, and then, as they caught sight of our figures, shamble quickly off again.
However, in the north emus may be found in plenty; and I do not think there is the slightest fear of their becoming extinct, as some writers suggest.
A couple of nobleemus now came stalking slowly towards the water, and, passing within forty yards of our hiding-place, both fell victims to the breechloaders of Dunmore and myself.
This evidently is a law of policy and necessity, for if the emus were allowed to be indiscriminately slaughtered, they would soon become extinct.
We were just about to land, to prepare our dinner, when two emus swam across the river ahead of us.
Here the picture itself is held to be a living emu, perhaps the source or centre from which all emus will originate, and the men, pretending to be emus, will cause numbers of actual emus to be produced.
I have not the least doubt but there is water above and below, judging from the number of tracks of natives and emus that have been up and down the creek.
The emus and other birds also adopt the same plan.
Immense numbers of tracks of emus and wild dogs, also some native tracks, all fresh.
The kangaroos and emus driven away by the natives.
In this plain we saw three emus and killed one after a hard run.
Emus appeared to be numerous but very wild; pelicans abounded on the lagoons, and seemed to be remarkably tame, considering the remains of them which we saw at the old fires of the natives.
In the scrubs we saw several flocks of kangaroos, eight or ten in each; and on the plains we this day saw a greater number of emusthan we had before fallen in with during the whole journey.
The pigeons and parrots which swarmed about this hole at dusk, the quantity of feathers, and the tracks of emus and kangaroos around it, showed how scarce this essential element had become in the back country.
As we travelled across the plains, on which the young verdure, first offspring of the late rain, already began to shoot, four emus were observed quietly feeding at no great distance, apparently heedless of our party.
Thus in one day on our outward journey we had traversed the country in which all the emus we had ever killed on the Darling, three in number, had been found.
As he was running up to the dead emu, he saw that they were not emus at all but black fellows of a strange tribe.
Which song roughly translated means: I saw it first amongst the young trees, The white mark on its forehead, The white mark that before I had only seen as the emus moved together in the day-time.
Down though this he went, taking the emus with him, knowing there was another exit at some distance, out of which he could come up quite near his home, for it was the way he often took after hunting.
When they were quite out of sight Deegeenboyah jumped up quickly, took up the emus and made for an opening in the ground at a little distance.
As he turned to leave the river he saw a flock of emuscoming to water.
The artist has a good deal of spirit in his hunting scenes; his trees are not ill done, his emus and kangaroos are better than his men and labras.
Old Deegeenboyah said, "Here, give me the emus to carry, and then you will be free to have a really good game with your mooroolahs and bubberahs, and see who is the best man.
Several emus seen today, but they were so wild that none of us succeeded in shooting them.
We saw several emus today but as usual we did not manage to shoot any.
Beef, and that wretchedly bad, was almost our only provision: though we sometimes tasted the wings of the emus which the Indians caught.
Their daily employment, to pass away the time and to assuage their hunger, was hunting emus and collecting honey from under ground.
The Southern savages feed principally upon the flesh of emus and horses, in which the plains abound.
The southern savages believe that it dwells under the earth in tents, and employs itself in hunting, and that the spirits of dead emus descend along with it to the same subterranean abode.
Flocks of bustards and emusfled at the approach of the travelers.
Captain Sturt, [11] when descending the Murrumbidgee, in Australia, saw two emus in the act of swimming.
Towards evening two fine emuscame stalking along, and I shot one.
Emus swallow the stones without inconvenience; apparently a camel has an equally convenient interior, but he brings them up again in his cud and drops them out of his mouth as his jaws move from side to side.
Next morning we followed up a small creek, and on crossing saw the tracks of several kangaroos and emusmaking towards two peaks of quartz.
Here again we were in luck, for a mob of thirteenemus came to drink whilst I was in the rock-hole.
Our cup of joy was not yet full, for as we sat mending our torn clothes, two over-inquisitive emus approached.
Leaving their horses hobbled for a moment or two, the boys followed Murri to the edge of the little pool to which the emus had led them the night before.
The boys stopped Murri from throwing his boomerang at them, for they could not find it in their hearts to reward such confidence as the emus showed in them by letting them be killed.
Kangaroos and wallabies progressing by great leaps; emus flapping their inefficient wings to help them in their flight; bush rats and smaller creatures scuttling along by the side of wriggling snakes and currish dingoes.
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