Dog doesn't eat dog--at least, so they tell one.' 'It's this way.

Our blacks weren't regular cannibals, but in the bunya season they'd all collect in the scrubs and feed on the nuts and nothing else for months.

Then after a bit they'd get meat-hungry, and there not being many wild animals in Australia and only a few cattle in those outlying districts, they'd satisfy their cravings by killing and eating some of themselves--lubras--young girls--by preference, and, naturally, half-castes, as having no particular tribal status, for choice.' 'Half-castes!' She repeated, a little puzzled.
'These ones had Chinky blood in them--daughters of a Chinaman fossicker....

We're not partial to the Chinese in Australia--only we don't eat them, we expel them--methods just a bit dissimilar, but the principle the same, you see....

Anyway, of course we took on the gin and her girls, and for about a year didn't have any particular trouble at the station with the blacks--though there was a shepherd speared in one of the out-huts....