2-979-600 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Kangaroo Hunt in Western Australia, 1857. 'This exhilarating sport commences before sunrise, and the sense of freedom and enjoyment which one experiences, mounted on a good horse, in the early freshness of an Australian morning, on the boundless plains gemmed with the richest flowers, must be felt to be appreciated. The kangaroos, tall as grenadiers, with heads like rabbits, and tails like bedposts, afford an unlimited quantity of hard galloping; and as they are not bad to eat and are destructive to the farmers' crops their rapid extinction is inevitable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.