giant in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1
d wood, and has an arm four and a half inches long, turning up at a sharp angle, and tipped with a slightly-curved barb of tortoise-shell, projecting horizontally inwards an inch and a half. It somewhat resembles the fish-hook of the New Zealanders. J "A whale" says Grey, "is the greatest delicacy…
- Record ID
- 3,509
- Year
- 1,878
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 3509
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1; R. Brough Smyth
- Published
- 1878 public-domain Victorian and Tasmanian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
- Narrative type
- Giant and Ogre Narratives
- Public-text label
- giant
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Victoria and Tasmania (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
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d wood, and has an arm four and a half inches long, turning up at a sharp angle, and tipped with a slightly-curved barb of tortoise-shell, projecting horizontally inwards an inch and a half. It somewhat resembles the fish-hook of the New Zealanders. J "A whale" says Grey, "is the greatest delicacy that a native can partake of, and whilst standing beside the giant frame of one of these monsters of the deep, he can only be compared to a mouse standing before a huge plum-cake ; in either case the mass of the food compared to that of the consumer is enormous When a native proprietor of an estate in Australia finds a whale thrown.
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