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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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as the merits of the leather had not become known.The first that were sent to America were sold at a loss, and then ina few years, wdien their qualities were known, the American tannerscould not get enough of them. One firm in Newark, New Jersey, issaid to receive six thousand skins every week, and even with that num-ber cannot meet the demand for kangaroo leather. During the evening, stories of kangaroo hunts were naturally inorder, and a goodly number were told; but as all were of the same gen-eral character it is hardly necessary to give them. Frank made noteof the fact that there is one kind of kano^aroo which climbs trees and 428 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. jumps, like a squirrel, from limb to limb. He is called the tree-kanga-roo, and has curved claws on his fore-paws to enable him to chng to thebranches. He is not a bad pet to have about a park, but his numbersshould be judiciously kept down, or he may become a nuisance, like thelarger kangaroos that live on the ground.
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