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There was, of course, no refrigeration on the goldfields, and plenty of ants, flies and possums, so the Austalian miners had to come up with ingenious ways to protect their foodstuffs. one method was the Coolgardie safe. This was a meshed metal cage suspended from a tree branch or other high position, often covered with wet cloth such as hessian, so that when whatever minimal winds blew, it would cool the food inside slightly. Sometimes, food was kept in a wooden box with its legs set in water so that ants could not crawl up and damage the food.

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