. Les Wanderers australiens, ou les aventures de Captian Spencer, son cheval et son chien . hichthese rudes indigènes auraient pu mettre tous les européanjoueurs au défi.* la chasse au kangourou était alors organisée, et le capitaine Spencer, monté sur Tiger, était readyfirst; Donc, après avoir à les attendre, il est allé au theriver, et a été surpris de voir comment ses particularités avaient prospéré depuis qu'il était là : les géraniums étaient en pleine fleur, et les remarquables Doryanthes excelsa, avec des feuilles longues, larges, semblables à l'aloès, était dans toutes ses splen-dour. La partie de chasse a pris leur chemin vers le thespot où t

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. The Australian wanderers, or The Adventures of Captian Spencer, his horse and dog . hichthese rude natives could have set all the Europeanplayers at defiance.* The Kangaroo hunt was then organized, andCaptain Spencer, mounted on Tiger, was readyfirst; so having to wait for them, he rode to theriver, and was surprised to see how its peculiarplants had flourished since he had last been there :the Geraniums were in full blossom, and thesplendid and remarkable Doryanthes excelsa, withIts long, broad, aloe-like leaves, was in all its splen-dour. The hunting-party took their way to thespot where they were sure of meeting with Kan-garoos : it was no longer the stealthy, artful at-tack of the nitive, whose wives and children lieflat on the ground, scarcely daring to breathe whilehe gets near to hir game; it was not the followingof a single man upon its track for three successivedays, till the animal, worried and tired, lies down, careless whether it live or die ; but it was a regu-lar battue. A plain in which the Kangaroos wereCoeding was encir:;l3i by wood, and the older men. AUSTRAI. IAN WANDERERS. 331 assigned stations to the younger, so as to curroundthe animals before they were conscious that ene-mies were approaching. They gradually narrowedthe circle till one became alarmed, and boundelaway; but before it had proceeded far, it wasstopped by the most terrific and hideous shouts;it returned to its companions, and they were para-lysed with fear ; the natives then dashed on themwith their spears, and effected a great slaughter.The prey belongs to him whose spear has firsttouched it, however slight the wound may be ; andif, according to their laws, he is too young to eat it, it is given to his nearest male relation who is ofthe proper age. The cries used in this hunt arepeculiar for every stage of it, and the first is a harshutterance of the syllable kau. Many were thefuiists held that r.ight, and large was the quautiiyeaten; but the Englishman was not forgotten inthe dis

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