The food of the cassowary is either grass, or a yellow bell-flower growing in the swamps.
"A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson"
Watkin Tench
It deserves remark, that the natives deny the cassowary to be a bird, because it does not fly.
"A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson"
Watkin Tench
We also saw wallaby, and numerous tracks of cassowary and wild pig.
"Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines"
H. Wilfrid Walker