They laid him softly within the hut, and placed at his head enough of nardoo to last him for eight days. |
Recent investigations can explain far more than the basis for such practices as the Aboriginal preparation of nardoo, or the true cause of death of two national heroes. |
I also shot a crow that evening, but was in great dread that the natives would come and deprive me of the nardoo. |
For a meal, they boiled some of the nardoo seeds, and then made for the main creek. |
These are collected by the natives, and are known over most of the continent as nardoo. |
This five-page factsheet looks at Common nardoo which forms dense swards following flooding, and forms a dominant component of the groundcover layer. |