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... continent . Cook made his way past Easter Island and the Marquesas to Tahiti , went to the Fiji group and the New Hebrides , discovered New Caledonia and Norfolk Island . Then he recrossed the Pacific , rounded Cape Horn and reached ...
... continent . Cook made his way past Easter Island and the Marquesas to Tahiti , went to the Fiji group and the New Hebrides , discovered New Caledonia and Norfolk Island . Then he recrossed the Pacific , rounded Cape Horn and reached ...
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... continent . Even when major exploration was at a standstill , the squatters pushed farther and farther into the back country , moving their flocks , herds and families . The hands of civilization stretched out from the coastal ...
... continent . Even when major exploration was at a standstill , the squatters pushed farther and farther into the back country , moving their flocks , herds and families . The hands of civilization stretched out from the coastal ...
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... continent , plus an additional £ 1,000 by a vote of the Legislature . In 1869 he was granted a lease of 1,000 square miles of pastoral country in the north , free of rent for a period of seven years . Although still a comparatively ...
... continent , plus an additional £ 1,000 by a vote of the Legislature . In 1869 he was granted a lease of 1,000 square miles of pastoral country in the north , free of rent for a period of seven years . Although still a comparatively ...
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The Coast of Doom I I | 11 |
The First British Landing | 21 |
Columbus of the South | 26 |
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