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WHILE preparing for a second edition of the “Aborigines of Tasmania, I received from Mr. Jas. Backhouse Walker, of Hobart, two separate accounts of fire-making by the aborigines, which differ materially from those already known. The accounts come from two very old colonists, Mr. Rayner and Mr. Cotton, and describe fire as being obtained by means of the stick and groove process.
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ROTH, H. Tasmanian Firesticks. Nature 59, 606 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059606b0
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