 | George French Angas - Australia - 1865 - 392 pages
...place, who must, from appearances, be very numerous in this part of Australia. Captain Grey says : " Here were regular beaten tracks of the natives, as...in some places was .ten feet high. It was situated near a large bed of cockles, and was evidently formed from the remains of native feasts, as their fireplaces... | |
 | M. S. Lovell - Cookery (Shell-fish) - 1867 - 296 pages
...Port George the Fourth, and * ' Intellectual Observer,' vol. ip 239. Hanover Bay. " It covered nearly half an acre of ground, and in some places was ten feet high ; it was situated over a bed of cockles, and was evidently formed from the remains of native feasts, as their fire-places... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - Australasia - 1876 - 444 pages
...of the natives, as completely pathways as those we find in England from a village to a farm house. Near the sea we also came upon a complete hill of...in some places was ten feet high. It -was situated near a large bed of cockles, and was evidently formed from the remains of native feasts, as their fireplaces,... | |
 | William Brackley Wildey - Australia - 1876 - 440 pages
...occur in many of the sandstone caves; of heads surrounded with broad discs, kangaroos, shields, &c." also came upon a complete hill of broken shells, which...in some places was ten feet high. It was situated near a large bed of cockles, and was evidently formed from the remains of native feasts, as their fireplaces,... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...on a neck of land near the sea, between Port George the Fourth and Hanover Bay, in West Australia, " a complete hill of broken shells, which it must have...formed from the remains of native feasts, as their fire-places and the last small heaps of shells were visible on the summit of the hill." t Grey refers... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...on a neck of land near the sea, between Port George the Fourth and Hanover Bay, in West Australia, "a complete hill of broken shells, which it must have...formed from the remains of native feasts, as their fire-places and the last small heaps of shells were visible on the summit of the hill." t Grey refers... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - Anthropology - 1896 - 494 pages
...from time to time." Near the south-west coast between Port George the Fourth and Hanover Bay there is "a complete hill of broken shells, which it must have...quite, half an acre of ground, and in some places was 10 ft. high" (Grey, NorthWestern and Western Australia, ip no). EM Curr, who has examined a great many... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - Anthropology - 1896 - 492 pages
...time to time." Near the south-west coast between Port George the Fourth and Hanover Bay there is " a complete hill of broken shells, which it must have...quite, half an acre of ground, and in some places was 10 ft. high" (Grey, NorthWestern and Western Australia, I. p. 11o). EM Curr, who has examined a great... | |
 | Thomas Worsnop - Aboriginal Australians - 1897 - 372 pages
...are to be seen heaped over the bodies .of the dead. On the Prince Regent river •Captain Grey found a complete hill of broken shells which it must have taken some centuries to form, as it covered nearly half an acre of ground, and in some places was 10ft. high.* Captain King also... | |
 | Thomas Worsnop - Aboriginal Australians - 1897 - 366 pages
...mounds arc to be seen heaped over the bodies of the dead. On the Prince Regent river Captain Grey found a complete hill of broken shells which it must have taken some centuries to form, as it covered nearly half an acre of ground, and in some places was 10ft. high.* Captain King also... | |
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a complete hill of broken shells, which it must have taken some centuries to form, for it covered nearly, if not quite, half an acre of ground, and in some places was ten feet high. It was situated... 