He would also give the sufferer a kind of grass to eat, and this herb, besides clearing the system, also acted as a most marvellous appetiser.

The capacity of some of my blacks was almost beyond belief.

One giant I have in my mind ate a whole kangaroo by himself.

I saw him do it.

Certainly it was not an excessively big animal, but, still, it was a meal large enough for three or four stalwart men.
In a case of fever the natives resorted to charms to drive away the evil spirit that was supposed to be troubling the patient.