He told me some wonderful things--some almost incredible things--which he had seen the blacks do with the boomerang and the weet-weet.

They have been confirmed to me since by other early settlers and by trustworthy books.
It is contended--and may be said to be conceded--that the boomerang was known to certain savage tribes in Europe in Roman times.

In support of this, Virgil and two other Roman poets are quoted.

It is also contended that it was known to the ancient Egyptians.
One of two things either some one with is then apparent: a boomerang arrived in Australia in the days of antiquity before European knowledge of the thing had been lost, or the Australian aboriginal reinvented it.
It will take some time to find out which of these two propositions is the fact.

But there is no hurry..