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Updated: May 26, 2025
Presently one of the blackfellows pointed to a tall honeysuckle-tree about fifty feet away, and said with a gleeful chuckle, "Hallo, you see him that 'pfeller goanner been catch him bandy-bandy?" Sure enough, an iguana, about three feet in length, was scurrying up the rough, ridgy bark of the honeysuckle with a "bandy-bandy" in his jaws.
The cause of this new departure in the predatory habits of the "goanner" which hitherto had confined his evil deeds to nocturnal visits to the fowl-yards is stated to be the extermination of the opossum, which has driven the cunning reptile to seek for another source of food.
'Goanner' eat some, snake eat some, some die, some run away in bush, hawk eat some. By , this feller duck and fowl altogether dam fool. »
About a year or so later I was given another instance of the "cuteness" of the wicked "goanner." The background was a short, steep beach of soft, snow-white sand, fringed at the high-water margin with a dense jungle of wild apple and pandanus-trees.
On the other hand, when a sudden pungent scent and a rustle among the twigs set Finn leaping forward after the strangest-looking beast his eyes had ever seen, Jess joined with him, in a good-humoured, rather indifferent manner, and between them they just missed a big "goanner," as Bill called the iguana, or Gould Monitor.
E.R. Waite, of the Sydney Museum, has described the palu as the Ruvettus pretiosus, "which hitherto was known only from the North Atlantic, and whose recorded range is now enormously increased. The Escolar to give it its Atlantic name has been taken at depths as great as three and four hundred fathoms, but can only be taken at night in September and the early part of October." The Wily "Goanner"
They instantly sought refuge on the tree trunks around them; but as each "goanner" selected his individual tree, and as they were still connected to each other by the line and the hooks in their jaws, their attempts to reach a higher plane was a failure. So they fell to upon one another savagely. "Come away, you wicked, thoughtless boy," said my sister, weepingly.
Myself, I incline to think that walking along a bush track, with a long stick in his hand and a pack-horse to drive before him, was really an ideal situation for Ted, despite his preference for riding. Afoot, he could so readily step aside to start a 'goanner' up a tree, or pluck an out-of-the-way growth to show me. There never was such a fellow for 'noticing' things, as they say of children.
You look out, Mithsis big feller goanner sit down along a tree. And for the first time in her existence, Lady Bridget beheld a monster iguana dragging its huge lizard tail and turning its stately, brown crocodile head round at her from the safe vantage place of a thick gum branch. After that, the way led off the main road, on by a less used track through wilder country.
"That's another of them theer dang things!" he exclaimed. "That's two I've seed this mornin'." Presently he remarked: "Yer don't smell none too sweet, Brummy. It must 'a' been jist about the middle of shearin' when yer pegged out. I wonder who got yer last cheque. Shoo! theer's another black goanner theer must be a flock of 'em."
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