It has happened that a black fellow has not found his emu until the next day, when it was dead and the spear still in it; but usually very soon after the wounded birds start running the spear is shaken out.
Sometimes the blacks killed birds with their boomerangs, ducks in particular.

I fancy this killing of ducks by a well-thrown boomerang is one of the feats that black fellows allow themselves to blow about.
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Pigeons, gilahs, and plains turkeys are also killed with boomerangs.
Blacks' fishing-nets are about ten feet by five, a stick run through each end, for choice of Eurah wood.

Eurah is a pretty drooping shrub with bell-shaped spotted flowers, having a horrible smell.

The wood is very pliable.

It is sometimes used instead of the sacred Dheal at funerals.
Two of the fishermen take the net into the creek, one at each end; they stand in a rather shallow place, holding the net upright in the water.
Some other blacks go up stream and splash about, frightening the fish down towards the net.