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 282
... Government Gazette rules and regulations set sedition ablaze . The Government owned one half the town , the unions the other . Pioneers were rooted out for the new order . Myilly Point - Dead Horse Ranch - became the Toorak of Darwin ...
... Government Gazette rules and regulations set sedition ablaze . The Government owned one half the town , the unions the other . Pioneers were rooted out for the new order . Myilly Point - Dead Horse Ranch - became the Toorak of Darwin ...
Page 287
... Government offices , doused in a sudden squall but their ranks unbroken . Government wives rushed for cover . The police rushed for their batons . His Excellency hastily retired into Government House . At a minute's notice , seventy ...
... Government offices , doused in a sudden squall but their ranks unbroken . Government wives rushed for cover . The police rushed for their batons . His Excellency hastily retired into Government House . At a minute's notice , seventy ...
Page 289
... Government Secretary , and the Justice of the Supreme Court , under threat of another uprising , were forced to resign their positions forthwith , and to leave the town . Ordered to be on board s.s. Bambra for the west at eight o'clock ...
... Government Secretary , and the Justice of the Supreme Court , under threat of another uprising , were forced to resign their positions forthwith , and to leave the town . Ordered to be on board s.s. Bambra for the west at eight o'clock ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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