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 169
... Daly Waters in two thousand miles of riding from de Grey River , north - west . Forrest had opened up twenty - five million acres of splendid new pastoral country along the Fitzroy River and the Ord . In the same year Ernest Favenc ...
... Daly Waters in two thousand miles of riding from de Grey River , north - west . Forrest had opened up twenty - five million acres of splendid new pastoral country along the Fitzroy River and the Ord . In the same year Ernest Favenc ...
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... Daly , and gave one of the best examples to date of maintaining a family " on the country " . He trapped birds , snakes , spiders , crocodiles , and sent them to museums- s — for a stick of tobacco the Brinken would bring in enough to ...
... Daly , and gave one of the best examples to date of maintaining a family " on the country " . He trapped birds , snakes , spiders , crocodiles , and sent them to museums- s — for a stick of tobacco the Brinken would bring in enough to ...
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... Daly River on her way to the Jesuit Mission and the copper- mine , discovered Ivan adrift in a dinghy without oars and without food . He alleged that blacks in the night had boarded Wunwulla , knocked him over- board with a murderous ...
... Daly River on her way to the Jesuit Mission and the copper- mine , discovered Ivan adrift in a dinghy without oars and without food . He alleged that blacks in the night had boarded Wunwulla , knocked him over- board with a murderous ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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