gecko
Language:
Australian:
Pae-ginn
English JS Main:
gecko
English:
The Native name Pae-ginn . . . . . The Natives will not touch it, because they say it emits a fluid that stings like a common Nettle
Category:
fauna: reptiles
Source:
Smith & Wheeler
Page:
154
Line:
160
Respelt:
ba-gin
Part of speech:
noun
Source Details:
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp.
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Comment:
Watling 363: This broad-tail’d Lizard is not very common in N.S. Walesand never seen or at least very rarely except in the Summer. The natives will not touch it bexcause they say it emits a fluid that stings like common Nettle. The Beauty of its colours are but very humbly illustrated in this delineation. The skin is full of small tubercules of various shades terminating in poijnts, which to touch are quite rough. " Its eyes are prominent, the Iris beautifully transparenty with lengthen’d pupils standing perpendicular to the earth instead of round or horizontal. Native name Pae-ginn.