The Australian Abroad On Branches From the Main Routes Round the World
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If the frigate-bird can do the breakfasting in New York and the dinner at the Cape of Good Hope, as Audubon tells us, there is little doubt but that the moa ■could breakfast on the eastern shore of Maori-land, and have taken a consti- tutional run of about 150 miles in four hours or so to get an appetite and its dinner on the western coast. We wanted a moa-bone as a relic, and a tattooed Maori's head also, if they could be got ; but no such good fortune happened to us. Other folks had wanted su...ch, and gone without them. Like to the relics of Waterloo's battle-field, they should be manufactured somewhere and sent out on spec. As the dense forests, mountain ranges, and untrodden places come to be explored, further remains of the moa will doubtless be found, but that will be in the days far onwards, when our remains shall be like to the moa's, except as to value. Why did the moa retire before man ? Do not the large always retire from the company of the little ! Gulliver could not have lived in Lilliput !
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