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Updated: June 18, 2025
To enliven the performance they use flat carved sticks, some eight inches long, and of a pointed oval shape. Through a hole in one point they thread a string, with which the stick is rapidly swung round, making a booming noise "Bull-roarers" is the general white-fellows' name for them.
Having learnt the value of white-fellows' food, they took to the road, and were continually bailing up lonely swagmen, who were forced to give up their provisions or be knocked on the head, since hardly any carried firearms. The finest prize that they captured was a loaded camel, which in some extraordinary way had got adrift from the end of a large caravan, and wandered into the scrub.
"No; like white-fellows," said Uncle Richard, smiling, "and I think we shall get on faster." The next morning there was a surprise.
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