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and keep working the contents out as he went along
the nasty beasts, = it makes one sick to think of it, I am
now talking about their ways when we first come they
had not got into White ways then, If they were hungry they used
to begin at a Paddymelon or a Possum as soon as the outside
was done and then put it onto the fire untill some more
of it was cooked = Their principal food was Paddymelon
Opossum, Bears, Wallaby, Kangaroo Rat, Bandicoot, Porcupine
Flying Fox, (Kangaroo was almost extinct about the Manning)
lizards & such small fry = but I never knew them to eat
frogs - or mushrooms, Porcupine was the greatist delacasy
of all = I have never tasted it = they never offered one a bit of
that = it was too good - See a Blackfellow cooking one =
First he would singe it so as to remove the prickells, then
he would take it off the fire and scrape it well and
open it and take out the inside = he would have a
peice of bark well chewed up like tow in his mouth,
take it out & sop up the gravy = put it on the fire
again untill it was well cooked and then take it
off and begin to skin it, soping up all the gravey
with the chewed bark, being very careful not to loose a
drop of the fat, & then suck it out of the bark and
say "Marook" (Good) Porcupine was very fat, Paddymelon
and Possum were thrown on the fire = the hair singed
off = then taken off and the inside taken out, making
as small an opening as they could, skewered up tight
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