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He is also the inventor of such simple but effective instruments as the boomerang and the womera, a slinglike device for launching spears.

The womera, or throwing stick, which enables the natives of Port Jackson to cast their spears with such amazing force and precision, is not used by them.

I noticed in particular that they did not make use of the boomerang, or kiley, but of the throwing stick or womera, of a larger kind, however, than any I have observed elsewhere; the head of their spears was made of stone.

The old man's spear was not barbed, and the womera or throwing stick of the same long narrow shape as at Port Essington.

They carry the same kind of spears, and the womera, or throwing stick, as are used by those in New South Wales.