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Trade is much older than farming: Australian aborigines used to trade stone axes for sting-ray barbs over long distances, showing that hunter-gatherers can benefit from exchange.

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The walls of one room are covered in white sting-ray hides, while another is covered in hand-stitched calf's leather.

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“The sting-ray inside his left ankle, denoting membership of the gang he formed with four friends – including his stunt double Eddie Braun and Nicolas Cage – back in the summer of 1990, when they all owned vintage Corvette Stingray sports cars ‘and some permanent logo was needed’.”

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You could get eaten by a shark stung by a sting-ray stung by a jellyfish bitten by a poisonous octopus bitten by a snake

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On the 19th, I sent out one of the boys to try and get a sting-ray to vary our diet, but he returned unsuccessful.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

In the afternoon I walked down to the beach, to try to spear sting-ray, but the sea was rough, and I saw none.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

Having found the things, and put them on the horse, I sent the boy with them back to the camp, together with a large sting-ray fish which he had speared in the surf near the shore.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

Our arrangements being completed for the morrow, we enjoyed our supper of sting-ray, and lay down for the night.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

Another subject of uneasiness arose from the nature of our diet; — for some few days we had all been using a good deal of the sting-ray fish, and though at first we had found it palatable, either from confining ourselves too exclusively to it, or from eating too much, it had latterly disagreed with us.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

There were now plenty of sting-ray fish along the beach again, and I was desirous, if possible, to get one for a change of diet; my friend, however, had so much to eat, that though he said he should like fish too, I could not get him to go about a mile to the back of the sand-hills, to cut a stick from the scrub, to make a spear for catching them.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004