Anonymous historian notes how white settlers thought that the boomerang was a wooden sword.
- Type
- Book
- Source
- Anonymous Non-LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
The Land of the Kangaroo and the Boomerang (New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 1899), 37
- Scribe/Publisher
- Hurst & Co., Publishers
- People
- Anonymous
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
The native blacks, who often swarmed along the whole coast from Botany Bay, and far beyond in either direction, came to meet the white strangers naked, armed with shields, the spear, and the boomerang, which the settlers often took for a wooden sword.
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