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Updated: May 10, 2025
The fire burned down to rosy embers, in which little blue-tongued flames darted up fitfully, anon lighting up the room brilliantly, then dying away and leaving it almost in darkness, while Hagar's crooning died away to a whisper. A little gray light still shone in at the kitchen-window, but it was fast flitting. The roar of the sea became thunder, the wind grew tempestuous.
Ooboon BLUE-TONGUED LIZARD Goomblegubbon PLAINS TURKEY OR BUSTARD Boothagullagulla BIRD LIKE SEAGULL Tekel Barain LARGE WHITE AMARYLLIS. Douyou, black snake, totem claims Moodai, or opossum, another totem, claims
The natives brought us a few pieces of fish and turtle, but both were almost rotten; they also gave us a blue-tongued lizard, which I opened and took out eleven young ones, which we roasted and ate. There was nothing but scales on the old one, except in its tail. We always equally divided whatever we got from the natives, be it what it might; but they brought us very little that was eatable.
Rita desired to answer, "No," but heard herself saying, "Yes." Thereupon, from a thousand bowls, linking that lonely palm to the remote horizon, a thousand elfin fires arose blue-tongued and spirituous. Grey pencilings of smoke stole straightly upward to the sky, so that look where she would Rita could discern nothing but these countless thin, faintly wavering, vertical lines of vapor.
The Ooboon, or blue-tongued lizards, glide in and out through the grass. Now and then is heard the "Oom, oom, oom," of the dummerh, and occasionally a cry from the bird Millindooloonubbah of "Googoolguyyah, googoolguyyah."
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