Seeing is more a matter of knowing what to look for than anything else. We moved slowly along the dry bed of a stream and they paused to point out tracks to me, and then, by gesture, described the animals that had made them. I swa snake, wallaby, kangaroo, lizard, and emu. And I learned thata to the aborigine, the tracks were not just marks left in the soil but each one was ap picture story. They would study a track and decide whether the animal was moving slowly or quickly, whether he was young or old, how long ago he'd passed this way.

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