Crowds of animals, kangaroos and wallabies principally, were congregated at the muddy margins to drink at the fast-failing supply.
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.
When Dad had warmed himself back and front he turned to us and said: "Now, boys, we must go directly and light some fires and keep those wallabies back.
He was restless, and, somehow, his heart was n't in the wallabies at all.
Smith trained him to it to keep the wallabies off.
There were a great many wallabies near the beach, but they were very wild.
The red wallabies were very numerous, particularly in the kind of jungle along the river.
Wallabies were exceedingly numerous, and their tracks as broad as the foot-paths of the natives.
Partridge-pigeons were very numerous, and the tracks of kangaroos and wallabies were like sheep-walks.
Wallabies were very numerous between the cliffs of the felspathic rock; and the fine fig trees along the banks of the river were covered with ripe fruit.
Kangaroos and wallabies are very frequent; several brush turkeys were seen, and the partridge and bronze-winged pigeons are very plentiful.
Wallabies were numerous; two bustards, and even a crocodile were seen.
When Charley returned with the horses from a higher part of the river, he told us that he had seen so many wallabies and such numerous tracks of emus and crocodiles, that I sent John and Brown to procure some game.
Some sheldrakes and wallabies were seen, and a bustard was shot by Charley: large fish were splashing in the water.
Wallabies abounded both in the high grass of the broken country near the river, and in the brush.
Although closely allied to the true Wallabies, their habits are markedly distinct, the Rock-Wallabies frequenting rugged, rocky districts, instead of the open plains.
The Rock-Wallabies are confined to the mainland of Australia, on which they are generally distributed, but are unknown in Tasmania.
Wallabies were not to be seen, and soon we were in a valley close by the river, which we followed for a long way, and then began to ascend.
There are a few small gum-trees, and great herds of wallabies were jumping about.
It was a strangely weird- looking sight, and the noises were of a strange kind--wallabies leaping past, and strange birds overhead.
There were kangaroos and elephants and a hen with chickens and wallabies and rabbits and a funny man with large ears and all sorts of other peculiar shapes.
Bell-birds watch him; and in the fern Wallabies listen awhile, and turn Back through the bracken, and off they hop.
The rocks leading to the caves, the upper part of which is smooth as glass, owe their polish to their long use by wallabies as a track to and from their favourite haunts.
Wallabies may be seen leaping from rock to rock and peering out from the crevices.
The wallabies hide during the day amongst the spinifex bushes, and feed, like other rodents, on their roots at night.
Another way of getting some of these wallabies was by knocking them over, blackfellow fashion, with a short stick, when startled from their hiding-places.
The women and children who, in the mean time had been making a considerable circuit, now begin to beat amongst the bushes with the wind, shouting and driving the wallabies before them towards the nets, where they are caught and killed.
On the 3rd, I sent the overseer out in one direction and I went myself out in another, to examine the country and try to procure wallabies for food.
The large rock-wallabies are speared by the natives creeping upon them stealthily among the rugged rocks which they frequent, on the summits of precipitous heights which have craggy or overhanging cliffs.
Wallabies are of many kinds, and are killed in various ways.
The large wallabies are also called brush-kangaroos because they live in the thick brushy jungle, called the bush, which occupies so large a part of the Australian continent.
We were not kept long waiting, for within half an hour a couple of wallabies came hopping leisurely along, and were very cleverly dropped in their tracks, one by Dunmore, the other by Larry.
During the night we could hear wallabies hopping along, but were too worn out to sit up to shoot them.
The rock wallabies are soft and woolly and often of a pretty bluish tone, and make moderately useful carriage rugs and perambulator aprons.
The vagaries of wallabies and kangaroo, of cat and parrot and cockatoo, had no attraction for the dusky leader of the big black Orpington rooster.
Confusion became disorder, and the wallabies at length reduced themselves to a tangle, out of which they had to be assisted by means of Harry's pocket knife.
Then there were two young wallabiesand a little brush kangaroo, which lived in a little paddock all their own, and were as tame as kittens.
First to get off the line were the wallabies and the kangaroo.
The rock wallabiesagain have short tarsi of the hind legs, with a long pliable tail for climbing, like that of the tree kangaroo of New Guinea, or that of the jerboa.
There are some twenty smaller species in Australia and Tasmania, besides the rock wallabies and the hare kangaroos; these last are wonderfully swift, making clear jumps 8 or 10 ft.
Many of the swamp wallabiesare dyed imitation skunk, and look quite attractive.
The rock wallabies are soft and woolly, and often have a bluish tone.
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