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useless to them. Nor, on the other hand, would any glittering
bla de , irresistible in conflict, appeal to them. Their sole and
ever beseiging enemies were the Demons Hunger and Starvation;
and so, with intense practicalness they pressed the "goods the
i
gods had sent them" in to their servce, in solving the, to them,
fundamental equation of the problem of existence, the effort to
obtain something to eat; and chipped their celestial guests to
point the harpoons that brought them food.
Let us try and picture to ourselves the first use of the
iron from the"saviksue" .
It is in the late spring of several hundred years ago.
One of the most
self reliant of the Cape York hunters has
gone with his family into the depths of Melville Bay on a protract-
ed bear hunt, and led away by the excitement of the chase he re-
mains until the sudden breaking up of the ice cuts off his retreat
to the Cape.
Constructing a rough stone shelter ( which it so happens
is at the head of the bay where the "brown woman"from heaven and her
dog lie) he covers it with the skins of seals which he captures,
and lives in comfort through the summer, hunting industriously.
With the approach of winter he covers his hut deep with
stones and snow, for although he could now reach Cape York all his
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