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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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AYING IN THE WATER. Several animals danced and capered before the frog to induce himto laugh, but without success. Then the eel began to wriggle, and atthat the frog laughed outright; the waters ran from his mouth, andthere was a great flood, in which many people w^ere drowned. Thepelican took it upon himself to save the black people. He cut animmense canoe, and went with it among the islands which appearedhere and there above the waters, and with this canoe he saved a greatmany men and women. A distinct tradition of the flood, remarked Fred to Frank, as Mr.Watson paused a few moments to consider what he would next say. 358 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTKALASIA. There is a myth about the sun that is quite interesting, Mr. Wat-son continued. They say that because the sun gives heat it needsfuel, and when it descends below the horizon it goes down to a greatdepth, where it is supplied with fuel. They have some knowledge ofastronomy, and have names for and traditions concerning the principal
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THE HAUNT OF THE BUN-YIP. planets and fixed stars. They have mythical snakes and other animalspossessing supernatural powers, and can tell you stories upon stories ofthe wonderful things these creatures have done. The monster mostwidely believed in is the bun-yip; he is of dreadful aspect, devoursgreat numbers of human beings, and altogether bears a close resem-blance to the dragons which were believed in in other parts of theworld at different times since the history of man began. He can causedeath, illness, disease, and other misfortunes, and is supposed to hauntlakes, rivers, and water-holes all over the continent. Many nativesclaim to have seen him, and a considerable number of white men con-firm their accounts of the creature. And do you think such an animal exists? Frank asked, with anexpression of astonishment. Of course not with the attributes the blacks give him, was thereply, but it is quite possible that Australia possesses an amphibiousanimal which we have not yet been abl

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