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 172
... Downs on Shakespeare Creek and James River , just over the Queensland border , were occupied by Thomas Guthrie of Melbourne , the first four thousand sheep a year on the way from Victoria . The pretty old white homestead and its golden ...
... Downs on Shakespeare Creek and James River , just over the Queensland border , were occupied by Thomas Guthrie of Melbourne , the first four thousand sheep a year on the way from Victoria . The pretty old white homestead and its golden ...
Page 312
... Downs " . On Eva Downs , Corella and Brunette at this time were three old pastor- alist philosophers , great friends . Within a hundred miles of each other , they often rode over to pass the time o ' day for a week . The owner of ...
... Downs " . On Eva Downs , Corella and Brunette at this time were three old pastor- alist philosophers , great friends . Within a hundred miles of each other , they often rode over to pass the time o ' day for a week . The owner of ...
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... Downs , her daughter , Mrs Jack Spratt , later of Avon Downs for fifty years . Mrs Trayne was at Eva Downs in the earlies . " That's what accounts , " they told me , " for the chiffoniers out there . " A desolate run on the dry downs ...
... Downs , her daughter , Mrs Jack Spratt , later of Avon Downs for fifty years . Mrs Trayne was at Eva Downs in the earlies . " That's what accounts , " they told me , " for the chiffoniers out there . " A desolate run on the dry downs ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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