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This creek, which ran through fine, open downs, was followed until its course was lost in the flooded country, which is the end of most inland creeks. The last permanent water on it was named the Adder Waterholes, on account of the number of death-adders killed there.
You have met my scorpions, my death-adders, my baboon-man. The uses of such a playful little animal as a marmoset have never been fully appreciated before, I think, but to an indiscretion of this last-named pet of mine, I seem to remember that you owed something in the past, Dr. Petrie..." Nayland Smith stifled a deep groan. One rapid glance I ventured at his face.
You have met my scorpions, my death-adders, my baboon-man. The uses of such a playful little animal as a marmoset have never been fully appreciated before, I think, but to an indiscretion of this last-named pet of mine I seem to remember that you owed something in the past, Dr. Petrie...." Nayland Smith stifled a deep groan. One rapid glance I ventured at his face.
When I first went to Cardwell, I was talking about death-adders, and the naive remark made by one of the inhabitants amused and at the same time rather terrified me, for the perfect knowledge he exhibited of the reptiles showed plainly how common they were there. "Nasty things," he said, "but Lord, they won't hurt you. Best not try to get one alive into a bottle, though.
Of the common brown snake the kind we most dreaded and the black-necked tiger snake, we killed numbers with our guns and with sticks, and one day, when crossing some red ironstone ridges on the Ravenswood road, we despatched two death-adders which were lying asleep on the bare, hot road.
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