wed. 26 Aug. L.93. P.7. The outstanding event of today was the big wallaby hunt! About 50 Sukis with rifles, whites and some police took part. About 5 or 100 acres of grassland were burned over. The place is all interlaced with swamps so the game for the most part just walked into the water prevented further fire to go by. Having four Macquarie apes (the form of wallaby with the ear black-tipped), about seven bandicoots (Gordon) and a five new Melmops were taken. They were all in good condition. It was all very exciting. The planes roared along and the Sukis were spread widely all about the area with their dogs, arrows "at the ready", keenly watching to see what might break cover. Thursday, Aug. 27. This morning everybody very busy taking care of the catch made yesterday. On the trap this a.m. another Hydromys, a M. musculus and a young terrestrial giant Melmops. This Hydromys was trapped along a trickle of water that goes down a really deep stream back to the lake. The first one was caught in swampy grass. Mick Healy went over to the burned patch and got yet another wallaby this afternoon. He came back as yesterday we all did, so black as the ace of spades. At night the Sukis threw a dance. We went over and watched for a couple of hours. It was strictly a slap affair, mostly consisted of one fell of a din. About 30 men and boys took part. Each one had improvised a drum out of sections of bamboo and tin cans etc. & they passed forth to a fro with a knee and ankle flexure while they chanted three or four bars over your roar. In the flight of the kelp men and a couple of troopers under the bamboos the scene looked wild.