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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... Island was no place for digging . As in that old glass , darkly , what sea - pictures of other years ! Australia's largest island , fifty miles by fifty , blocked to the entrance of Van Diemen's Gulf about forty miles over from Darwin ...
... Island was no place for digging . As in that old glass , darkly , what sea - pictures of other years ! Australia's largest island , fifty miles by fifty , blocked to the entrance of Van Diemen's Gulf about forty miles over from Darwin ...
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... island , burning out game in the dry season , but to the desperate settlers with no ship a threat of doom . They parade each Sabbath morning along an earth - walled roadway to their little paperbark church where Captain Barlow feelingly ...
... island , burning out game in the dry season , but to the desperate settlers with no ship a threat of doom . They parade each Sabbath morning along an earth - walled roadway to their little paperbark church where Captain Barlow feelingly ...
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... island where a bushman hasn't been before you . " " What island was this ? " I asked - we had not been talking of islands . " Australia . " How often have I heard that phrase among them . To these , who know it so well , the continent ...
... island where a bushman hasn't been before you . " " What island was this ? " I asked - we had not been talking of islands . " Australia . " How often have I heard that phrase among them . To these , who know it so well , the continent ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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