Hey Scottie! As per your request: we need someone with a knowledge > of aboriginal ways & speech to sound out the local > chaps on the ground. > > Volunteers? > I was going to recommend Bruce Chatwin, until someone reminded me that SONGLINES is supposed to be anthropologically questionable. Then I remembered that BC is, alas, no longer with us.... Besides which, I suspect that Camille would consider it oh so imperialistic if we were to commission a non-Aussie.... But I miss her too... (She should be virtually visible from outer space, since she's toting a library that would dwarf the Sydney Opera House!) Cheers, Paul