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FRIDAY, MARCH 14. 134.
AUSTRALIAN FAUŅA. here bird life was patiful EAT AND GROW THIN,
Visit To Tropical
Queensland.
Advice to Those Who Would Reduce.
For lunch or dinner-a wide
(though mammsis seamed'entiraly
absent. Indigenous tropicalTM yegetation is as rare or these islands as on the mainland búr aj variety of exotic fruits are grÓWD fon Hicks Isländ, where insay the
fratives are employed on the choice awaits the patient: He
plantations, among them tomay me have: chiefs, whase exalted rank, how.
Su for taking hot liquide ever brings them no higher rate into the stomach when beginning of remuneration
ja meal is fattening. Some auth- After seven weeks' hanting iforities zllow clear soups, while adjacent islands, recently spent the neighbourhood of Cape Greu-forbidding thick soups and those three months in tropical Queenville with no great success, containing macaroni, vermicelli, fruits Captain Wilkins decided to divide rica or barley, but I dissgTEG its labours have just reached his forces. Mr. J. E.. Young went totally.
The expedition under Headship of Cantain G. F. Wilkins! (which is engaged in cóllecting on behalf of the Trustees of the British Museum qatural bistory specimens, principally mammals į and birds, in Australis and the
land,
the aad
the Natural History Museum.southwards with the specimens Fish, containing much fat, such, On his return to Brisbane from collected to Townsville on Clave-jas salmon, eels or mackerel, or collecting trip in South Queensland Bay, and prepared a trip in-fish cooked in fat or oil.
Pork, or such fatty foods- a1f land. Captain Wilkins remained fland from there. Meanwhile Capt. only a fortnight, just long enough Wilkins himself went inland from geese, ducks, and some kinds off. to send off the specimens, before Temple Bay and then southwards game, liver, brains, "sweetbreads, sailing with his thres companions to discover an area in which the for any meat fried in fat tore but- Professor V. RotoT, J. E. Young, York Peninsula fauna was well ter, or rich made" dishes- or: and O. P. Cornwell) on June 16 represented. No land transport antress into the cooking of which for Thursday Island, the well-was to be had, and he expected to ail or butter enters largely. known pearl fishery centre lying have to make the whole journey Porucoes, carrots, parsnips, bari-}· to the north-east of Cape York, at on foot, but after tramping foot or batter beans, turnips, beet-! the extreme north of Queensland miles he was able to obtain pack-root, asparagus, artichokes and A few hours after arrival the borsos, with which he travelled pess. Among traits, many sweet
Moreton party embarked in
Telegraph ones are forbidden, such as figs, & launch through
to York downs. then dates, raisins, currants, malbes- placed at their disposal by the Station Commonweath Government, and to Merluns and Meio, final-ries, all fruit salads, etc., made;"
tha Batavia with sugar. sailed back again long the east reaching coast of Cape York. A bait was River, which runs between the Cream Cheese is not allowed,, made at Bird Island. The name western foothills of the Great nor are milk-puddings, nor. in held out hopes of birds in plenty. Dividing Range. He found game (deed, any kind of boiled pudding. This list of forbidden things but they proved disappointingly plentiful in the country watered few, both in actual numbers and the upper reaches of the may seem a long and comprehen-| 10 variety of species. Striped Batavia River, and the western see one: but there are many honey-osters, brown doves, and slopes of the Great Divide" articles of food which are still wood swallows were the most afforded some of the larger mar permitted to the corpulent. It numerous; a bird of the rail kind supials. which were not to be is not possible to arrange a dist| was observed, but only a glimpse found to the east, he did not, how-which will suit everybody, sa tha was enough of it as it darted ever, wait to bunt here himself personal idiosycracy, bas. to be but secured the services of Mr taken into account. The babit through the mangrove scrub.
H. C. McClennon, an experienced and the state of the general} Cape Grenville, where the party
and well-known hunter, and en-health have to be ste lied, also- disembarked to carry on its researches inland, is the northern trasted him with the work of the mode of life. As-general bluff of Temple Bay.
making a representative collec- rale, however, the obese may eat tion. Captain Wilkins hastened lean mest-mutton, beef, vanl bay great line of several hundred miles, 'southwards. to Coen where, too, and chicken-also any kind of and many rivers run into the sea he found some game..and crossed game, such as pheasant, par- there. The Olive River, which is the Great Dividing Rangeand the tridge, bare, and leveret. jover a mile wide where it enters broad flat plain between mean The fish allowed is any white Temple Bay. had not been pro- tains and see to Port Stewart, lesb non-fatty such as sole, perly surveyed, and this river Princess Charlotte Bay to await plaice, whiting, brill, suselts, was traced for 16 miles. At this, the Townsville-steamer. Here be turbot, flounder, cod. habeat, point navigation became impos-obtained the assistance of a man skate, muller, and oysters, with sible, though the dinghy drew fishing for beche-de-met la sea-out rich san as.. barely 4ft. of water; for the river slug exported as a food delicacy divides into several small creeks, to China), and was thus enabled and even on the main stream the to spend two spare days exploring
has
This, * coast-
THE VEGETABLES. Vegetables, plaints cooked may way was barred by fallar trees. the vicinity of Lloyd's Bay include French beans," spinach, Captain Wilkins. however fol-saveral miles north of Port Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, Finally, on Sept. 30, he salsify, cabbage, endires artic- lowed it some way farther on Stewart.
companions at hores, lettuce, aubergines, foot and made rough sketches of joined his its course, proving that it is quite Townsville. distinct from the MacMillan
River, with which its upper re- aches
on the are connected latest available maps.
and onions. tomatoes,
But let not the cook perform her favourite fear
masking
her
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AA OLLA VIE
WIDE RANGE OF FINDS The specimens received at the museum illustrate a widely vari ed field of scientific research, with a thick white sauce, for this Ants were the one exception to The mammals include the skele- concomitant is forbidden to the a general scarcity of insects: ton of a bottle-nose whale as well obese. Salads are ides! food for many kinds were noticed, but the as flying foxes and flying squirthe far but not made in the. commonest were the green tree-rels, wallabies, and wallaroos. A ordinary way with oil, or mayon- ants. These are widely distribut most interesting animal is the naise Chataining eggs. A special! ed throughout Queensland, but cuscus, or short-eared opossum devised for the corpulent is as salad-dressing which has been were most plentiful in the dis
a marsupial which varies trict around Temple Bay. They siderably in size and colouring in of vinear (slightly diluted if very follows: Take two tablespoonful are not specially addicted to one different species: the eyes are kind of tree but appear equally at large, indicating its noctural strong a pinch each of salt and home in isolated, sea surrounded babits, and the tail is long, and pepper, a quarter teaspoonful of mangroves, low turkey
dry mustard, a tensonfal of prehensile at the tip. A member
on
also
the ironstone
bushi
con-
on sandy hills, or full gums of this family was the first aus-chopped parsley or chives, and a either walnur in teaspoonful of ridges tralasian mammal known farther inland. Trailing creepers Europe, and was brought over ketchup or Worcester sauce.
afford them
The corpulent man may enjoyr a home. early in the 17th century. Birds, They build their nests by weaving reptiles and fishes are all well life and yet reduce his fat to a leaves together with a fine web. represented in the collection, normal amount. There are many. and it is said that they employ some very entious and all of dangers in the much trumpeted forced labour of spiders to do the
rigatous reduction of the food weaving for them: but Captain great interest. Insects and other starvation", diets, though a invertebrates arefewer in Lumber.
intake is absolutely necessary. Wilkins "was not able to sub- A collection of marine biologi-One may dine well and yet may stantiate this story by personal
cal specimens was made. observation. The nests are some which though little more could dine wisely and reduce the weight. The thing to remember is to eat times built in deciduous trees and he afforded for the purpose, is? fall to the ground, while still
the proper kinds of food; and likely to prove extremely in- inhabited, when the leaves are teresting, because of the great will lose their superffucus tissue those who eat the plainest dishes shed. Tree-ants are eaten by the distance to which the tides the more rapidly. natives, who consider them necasionally flow up the rivers: great delicacy, but Captain Wilk-life at such places must obviously
Le: Moderation be the watch word, remembering the Roman
ing expresses no opinion on this be adapted to water of. varying saying that everything becomes
point.
SERIOUS DROUGHT.
where
evil in excess.
Eight o'clock (breakfast), One
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Such geological work was also
In the diet recommended by No done. The south-east monsoon was
gold was dis Gautier 1290 calories were sup- though it is much less regular this season covered.
aplied each day, and the remain. than usual and seems to hare land
prospectors arejing 800 calorias were borrowed blown with redoubled violence to numerous and such names as from the consumption of stored.
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sad up fats in the body, the resultan Lost Strike "are not infrequent. loss of weight being nearly one The forest fires were largely due to the drought, and the drought Ethnology was also not neglect-pound a day. His diet was as
was follows: presumably, to the vagaries of ed, but little material the monsoon. In North Queen-obtainable. The natives will work sland the drought was particular-energetically if the employment ly bad. In one of the wettest offered them is varied, but they
not make steady districts the rainfull was 40 indo below the average, and 1924, is trustworthy labourers. Captain expected to prove the worst! Wilkins points out that whatever! drought year ever experienced in may be the reason of the scarcity Australia Southwards, in the of animals it is not due to the use direction of Mein, where the soil of firearms by the natives or becomes red and black and because closer settlement: is the country undulating, the driving them away. The cause drought is responsible for is not clear, though it may be extraordinary conditions
in climatic.
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