6 OCTOBER 1928, Page 52

Answers to Questions on Frontier Lore

1. (a) An African carrying-hammock ; (b) a Spanish-American heavy knife for cutting brushwood or throats ; (c) a S. African knobbed stick used for the settlement of acute differences.

2. Skin shoes, because made of yet (untanned-leather).-3. (a) a girth ; (b) a halter-bridle ; (c) a tethering-rope.------4. One is loosely shackling the horse over the fore-fetlocks ; the other drawing his head down by a halter-rein attached by a clove-hitch to the knee. Yes, if he lifts his leg.---5..(a) An unbroken-horse off an Australian range ; (b) a roan horse (S. Africa) ; a piebald horse (Spanish American).-6. (a) A puma ; (b) A kind of Australian crane ; (r) An oryx antelope (S. Africa) or a chamois (Switzerland) 7. (a) Cattle-price paid for a wife (S. Africa) ; (b) East African native garden.-8. (a) An Eskimo snow-block but ; (b) A Spanish American house of sun-dried brick ; (c) A Red Indian lodge 9. (a) A S. African skin rug ; (b) An Afghan sheep-skin coat ; (c) An Arctic fur hood.-10. Track left on grass in early morning while the dew still lies.-11. Sun-dried meat.--42. Leopard, hyena, and giraffe. S. Africa.-13. (a) Mexican cowboy ; (b) S. American half-breed cattle herder ; (c) Sledge-dog driver (North America).