The Red Centre: Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia |
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aborigine amongst animal areas Ayers Rock beast blacks boys budgerigar burrow Caloprymnus camels camp canteens cattle Central Australia Centre clay-pans colour curious desert Duboisia Ernabella Ernest Giles Everard farther fauna favourable feed feet Finlayson flats frequently George Gill George Gill Range Giles Giles's gins goanna gorges granite grass green ground habit hand heat hills horse hour huge hundred miles hunting interest kangaroo Lake Amadeus Lake Eyre basin less Luritja Country maala mammals marsupials morning Mount Conner Mount Olga mulga Musgrave ranges Musgraves myalls native night numbers one's oolacunta parakeelia party perhaps Petermann Pinindi plain plant plentiful rabbit rains ranges Reese ride rock-wallaby rodents saddle saltbush sand-hills scarcely scrubs seen settlers South Australia spears species spinifex string summer thing tion tracks travelling usually vegetation virgin country weather western whole wind