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From: Craig Skinner (craig_skinnerlinuxmail.org)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 04:16:06 CST

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    > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:15:48PM -0600, Jeffrey
    Taylor wrote:
    >
    > > It's a flying fox, a variety of fruit bat.
    Quoting from the colophon:
    > > "People have eaten flying foxes for ages.
    Samoans, who call the
    > > flying fox <it>manu ladi</it> (animal of the
    heavens) use branches
    > > bound to the end of log poles to swat the winged
    delicay from the
    > > sky. Aborigines in Australia build fires
    beneath flying fox
    > > camps---the smoke stupefies the prey---and use
    boomerangs to knock
    > > the creatures to the ground.
    >
    > I've seen some on Bali. Frightening beasts.
    >

    As I come from New Zealand, I don't find Samoans or
    Aborigines frightening. Just simple.

    Craig Skinner 

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