Continuation from page 238 (AA122/3/3/58) noting the mud hoppers and the sense ‘that one had been in another world’. Recalls a visit to swamp on the coast north of Adelaide and suggests this his response to swamp atmosphere influenced by [H G] Wells’ the work of fiction the ‘Time Machine’. The photographs depict other food caught from the sea ie green turtle and the dugong.

NOTE: Photograph 1 (388) from The Wingham Chronicle (founded 1880)
Photograph 2 (389 from Father Gzell

1. Photograph: ‘A green turtle and its young’

2. Photograph: ‘Natives and a dugong’

Placed mentioned: Adelaide (SA)

People mentioned: [HG] (Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946)

Fauna mentioned: Mud Hoppers (Periophthalmus); Blue Crabs (Scylla serrata); Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas); Dugong (Dugong dugon)

Photo number/s as per Journal and Index of Photographs: 388, 389