New-York tribune., 1903-01-11
HOW BOOMERANG CINE.
The Legend of the Black Fetto1o to
Erpiain II

-n. origin Of most primitive tools or weapons is
not as rule difficult to trace, for the service they
render direct and the need for their existence
IS 50 manifest 70 men of to-day that thei'
evolution is a simple matter of observation and
brief mental calculation says THE London GLOBE
The hammer the anvil the and the saw were
potentially invented when FIRST prehistoric man
cracked nut with stone. bored shell with
broken Bone chipped a log with a sharp edged flint
or cut a groove spear haft with a serrateo make
Of slate AS with the tools. also with the
weapons pointed stick proved its utility the hrst
time Il was hurled at object. and SO led the
human mind recognize the value of the spear ana
the arrow: the hammer which cracked a nut
naturally suggested the club wherewth heads coald
he treated ire similar way. while the desire loi
shelter from attack would. in due course lead 10
the invention Of the shield. and the sword would
grow out of the crude armory Immediately men
came TO hand to hand conflicts But what was me
origin Of the boomerang?
From the fact that il was found in the hands of
the Australian aboriginal when first the WI te man
landed on the shores the great southern CONT
rent there has grown belief that il is purely ana
particularly weapon of the black fellow ano that
Il had its origin with him, origin as much op-
scured by nists of unrecorded past as is MS
ov5p for whence the black fellow is conun-
drun which dare TO answer But boomeranss-
arc ret the peculiar property Of the Australian
aboriginal Is they known 20 and used by the
Egyptians in days before the pyramids were bulif
and are SUI to he found Of the Isolated
aboriginal tribes OF India The peculiar property OF
the Australian feleR. curiously enough is not
6 possession but the absence of possession 1t is
no, that he possesses the boomerang. but that he
does not posses the boN and arrow In this. he is
nlene Of all races and tribes OF upon the face
OF the earth. excluding those OF the lowest
human types and in spite Of the fact that the IN
hahitants of islands within a. comparatively speak
ing short distance of his coast line are among the
finest and most powerful archers humanity mas ever
produced. Throughout the Pacific islands -, nhe eow
and arrow viii everywhere De founq 19, ~ tSe~ "
Guinea ii is the staple weapon. and at the PTince OF
sraia The natives shoot six foot arrow with ease
from bow that muscular white man man GO can natery @
yriors Weld the boomerang as it welded by
he noe,, Who lived on the Nile centuries before
Thebes Memphis was oulll- Nheiet"is u
On qs for r. white man The black fellow knows
whence II came ana n dreasgtes me +n'If tTsce Of
poetry whatever may be lts character ds u
PLENTY long ago was the beginning of the story
the writer heard it Plenty I9s ago + fne si0 Ioo
fierce restless warrior OF another tribe The war
.,rfhodoX sboriginai method of courtship and
sought 70 pounce upon, her ~, n,ap % +ne head and
carrying her of TO his gunyah tor hab, But SUI 'ie i
eT 70 r'rotet bersef she wrapped herself in rug
,f black possum skins and only peepso aIoulu
zee her 9nG carry her Sometimes he did see heI
and peunced upon her but ever , ,1oes,,1o S skin
rYpesn6 50 elude him. for when she yansneo pc
1e5er I'M atoiif wondering how she had escaped AT
last the constant disappointment maze ma Iipse MIN Of
sngrv and suxy: yet when next ne nae d sllilpS So w
5sT face roeering around the shelter ne sprans IN.
Forward As was usual. the face vanisheo nuI ne NJ
being sulky. swore he Wollo .rk y @ aoI "ei ~ W
and law down sleep then ard there. - ~ ber
Ti,e x1o1ror girl. croucfing under the cove cL IL IL
rur listened for his raging footsteps 70 Ras .y15
Tor long time she listened oTe ot crions than Crafty
ebe Trnsf needs peep around the enc OF : lIle :uS
sreir to see what the silence meant The wa5roT
iynE sun the CLEAN Of the s, face aG n eresg
nnsa1ised the girl peeped furthe Slr @ N His hands
4e edge of her face with mighty grip hnt
se+e--Se e6 al the sight of him. fdi2g herseII pach
with SO much vigor tnat ,ds q - aFben did his rage
fursf ali bounds and with a zen ILL., rs later men
NJ held down upon the earn - mn and marvelling
+ 51ro ~ could be threw it from them Az ohce 1d
rbirled through the air up , bSay cockatoos
reks+n,s ers fbey start on long journey put soi@IS @
s.ha- and faster than even anything IN sn-.,3
p+srd and stuck in the earth al tto oi- he nicked
fsck fellow who had thrown II ..a his Comrades
N m and again he threw IL ano ,I+ @ and AT last
1rlSo - fesI1nr plenty debb debbil was IN a. A.,
(ajfes q great gathering OF IN. -, Who attended
a, To Soive the problem each MAI 49,. o,,t an
~ u - 80 1,or,ee set to work 20 fashon OUT ei
sroi-arion of the strangely WilI VIM IS,lnd ar the
when they had All suceeeTE ,oe did not know that
-hat they had founc was part p % +be result Of
face and that its long figfts roner Mace nor did
5hev know that the warrior IA ;;ta+fons travel
t.esutiful young girl made al Ihe moon looked
IT, a-d saw them all whirng round ana tot the
t -, asr She would not know whlch We We Nd
lIiESll-s disfgured, in punishment
Ts1snr rejected the love OF her gre tan- fellow
sn proof of the truth OF ms be1 nof at the full
-voIid point the moon,~nell nor+ no, on nights
and ask how else had it lost pa- pit feIiovV was
when the moon was foh uhe oi"N
Silent