Electricity is Easier
HE Australian blacks don’t use fire sticks to start the blaze every time they want to get warm, or grill some game they have speared. Oh, no. They are the cunningest folk I have seen in carrying fire on the day’s march. Try this and see how you get on. Pick up a stick about two feet long and as thick as your wrist, and just nicely charred by fire at its end. Then try to carry that on a 20-mile walk, and keep it smouldering. Then when it burns close to your fingers, put it down, start a fire, and prepare another fire-stick, That is what these nomads do, and that is what you would have to do if you were a wife out there. Yes, and carry the piccaninny on your shoulders and the household goods in a piece of bark on your head. That’s the job of the lubra or aboriginal’s wife. So take it from me, you white fellow lubras have a pretty soft time in this country, even if you think you are unfairly treated some-times.-("Fire in the Australian Desert.’ Michael Terry. 1Y A, February 2).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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194Electricity is Easier New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 139, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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