BATTLE BETWEEN KANGAROOS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVX, Issue 3094, 3 April 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

BATTLE BETWEEN KANGAROOS.

; The gpsdotar's stories about the sagacity of do?p“® wpf|diwide reputation; says tha Melbourne Argus, and this has elicited from a Queensland squatter (Mri'®.AMaitlaTOh. faf< We3lwood, Maryborough) A narrative of a Battle he once witnessed between two-bid men kangaroos.)/<sh the occasion to which I refer/’ along one evening near sundown, when the black, boy who-'-adcompanied, me, and/whp happened to bea few yards ahead of' ujß at the time, suddenly pulled up his horse just as he topped the crest of -the ridge we WSrb-rising held us hlshapd m warHing, and then heoioned rno tojoin him. As wq wore ona cattle muifßring expedition at the time I thoijght ho M ca» rMsjgfh of 'a rowdy mob. but when 1 had cr,opt quietly up alongside,-him, and could look down? into. r.the ngußy-'belo wadi ntated itt amazement at the scene before mahfor? there, grouped in a circle of about a hftudred yarfis or so, abfossp st-o6d'"s"om6 sixty forest kangaroobj "oyyry 9 r.ct 0 1- 11 ein erect, and looking on with evident interest at the spectacle of two immense ‘ old men,’ yfso. in the middle of- the- ring; - were engaged iu deadly combat. Clasping! in fierce embrace with their short muscular arms, they swayed to and “fro in their' efforts to force each other to the ground, every npwppnjl .agajp dga}iug kicks' at' each others stomachs with' tiigir long knife-llke foe of-their hind feet, kicks which'they avoided with woncferfaliagility by a? sort of backward jump, without,' however/ ‘reTcasing - their -grip-' onbtheir’s bodies for a, mmfitoy/'TBe' Wole t.q|aa,,- tha',‘twh Icomhatantt. J;toir f up£ight,figurqa gripping centre exactly as two wrestlersjiuighjjiqve donejcwitlirthe ringedf erect, ? grey-bod bsdt on-lookors, was singularly,intqypsiajigjitod for some ten minutes as lucre wc-stooitmul watched theiiv. ltAt-ii-'a snotffrom. oilO -Of' our horses g;ivo tliom t-lio alarm/ afndxllEey were 1 bit'in alf directions riding up to'examiiw jfbf sp&f tufts of fur auc*'h\ood marks uppmihe : gras| in several - place,?. -? anil t-iie-state-' -cf-' the ground for-'saiiio yards.round '.iihcutv showedivety haa>bcon' a fierce ’cme. 'WeYtiieto Ut ■ lhc?eoihc' batanfs, they Hornim- ; tod w«. u-ixitocEat • -Baca *" -t-mrsv ' ...