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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... Australia record . These were the first of many - two lone young women among them , Jean Batten and Eily Beinhorn - anxiously watching through an oil - spattered wind - screen for that horizon of green where the terrors of the Timor ...
... Australia record . These were the first of many - two lone young women among them , Jean Batten and Eily Beinhorn - anxiously watching through an oil - spattered wind - screen for that horizon of green where the terrors of the Timor ...
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... Australia , and found new worlds to conquer in Overland Telegraph Number Two , to circle the Great Australian Bight for sixteen hundred miles to West Australia . Of the type of the late Dr J. J. C. Bradfield , designer of Sydney Harbour ...
... Australia , and found new worlds to conquer in Overland Telegraph Number Two , to circle the Great Australian Bight for sixteen hundred miles to West Australia . Of the type of the late Dr J. J. C. Bradfield , designer of Sydney Harbour ...
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... Australia . Their horseless carriage a wreck , they trundled at last through the lily lagoons to Darwin . The bushmen said they were mad . Pack - bells ringing by all the rivers would be the Territory's theme song for a long time yet ...
... Australia . Their horseless carriage a wreck , they trundled at last through the lily lagoons to Darwin . The bushmen said they were mad . Pack - bells ringing by all the rivers would be the Territory's theme song for a long time yet ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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