The TerritoryGeneral ref. to physical & mental characteristics, effect of white contact, relations with early settlers; Malay influence in Arnhem Land; Brief mention of fish weirs on Daly River, census of Larrakea (in 1870); stone arrangements near MacaArthur River Station; cave paintings & skeletons in Walgandu cave near Mountain Creek (Roper River tributary); paintings near Ooraminna Rockholes; Account of organization & life of Warramunga people; General beliefs supertitions, food and birth customs; Many tribes mentioned. |
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Page 83
... Adelaide River with two small schooners , Beatrice , survey ship under Hutchinson , R.N. , Yatala , tender , to ply to Koepang for stores and stock . Manton was surveyor - in - charge of forty officers and men , Eben- ezer Ward ...
... Adelaide River with two small schooners , Beatrice , survey ship under Hutchinson , R.N. , Yatala , tender , to ply to Koepang for stores and stock . Manton was surveyor - in - charge of forty officers and men , Eben- ezer Ward ...
Page 84
... Adelaide inquiry that " the poor wretch , riddled with bullet wounds , was finished off by a humane white man who placed the butt of a rifle on the dying creature's chest and leaned on it . Then the party adjourned for lunch and spent ...
... Adelaide inquiry that " the poor wretch , riddled with bullet wounds , was finished off by a humane white man who placed the butt of a rifle on the dying creature's chest and leaned on it . Then the party adjourned for lunch and spent ...
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... Adelaide and home . On 22nd August a telegram reached him at Tennant's Creek — eight miles to go . With a grand sense of the fitness of things he asked that the wire should not be joined till next day , when he would make his Mount ...
... Adelaide and home . On 22nd August a telegram reached him at Tennant's Creek — eight miles to go . With a grand sense of the fitness of things he asked that the wire should not be joined till next day , when he would make his Mount ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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