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it had to mortify to come off as the cobweb would
stop the circulation. Women always had a lot of dogs
running after them, nasty mangey curs - but they were very
fond of them, if you wanted to get rid of them, set your dogs
onto them and they would soon clear out. Honey from
the Native bee was looked after very much = one way
of finding the nest was to stick a peice of down onto a
bee and let it go and follow it to the nest, but they
mostly found them by getting the head of a tree between
them and the sun and watching for the bees to go into
their nest, the wings of the bee used to glisten in the
sun and they could find out where the nest was. There
was not much honey in a nest, the bigest I remember
had about a pint and a half of honey in it, some of it
was anything but nice = it was not in cells like our
Bees but in pockets made of a dark brown wax, the
Darkies used this wax often when they could not get
Grass tree Gum to fix the spears in with to the shaft
There were no English bees at the time we first came
but soon after they became common and the Darkies did
not bother about Natrive honey when they could get
the other = the Bees were stingles, and very small - like
a common housefly = there were two kinds "Coput"
and "KerikÄh", Paddymelon, Bear and Possum
were the principal food Lizards and such small fry luxeries
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