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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... Katherine town , from the Old Crossing to the railway bridge , but the dejected patch of shacks that is Katherine knows little about it , for the river is netted in by jealous jungle . A lovely sight there is tea - tree in blossom ...
... Katherine town , from the Old Crossing to the railway bridge , but the dejected patch of shacks that is Katherine knows little about it , for the river is netted in by jealous jungle . A lovely sight there is tea - tree in blossom ...
Page 169
... Katherine River , Delamere near Victoria River , and Price's Creek near the Daly . The stock overlanded from Adelaide in charge of Alfred Giles , greatest cavalcade of droving ever seen in Australia . A. T. Woods was pilot , riding ...
... Katherine River , Delamere near Victoria River , and Price's Creek near the Daly . The stock overlanded from Adelaide in charge of Alfred Giles , greatest cavalcade of droving ever seen in Australia . A. T. Woods was pilot , riding ...
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... Katherine , were news to the world , in small acreage maintaining in vegetables well over a hundred thousand men . Pro- fessor Robert Bowman , an American soil scientist , noted that ten weeks after transplanting , individual cabbages ...
... Katherine , were news to the world , in small acreage maintaining in vegetables well over a hundred thousand men . Pro- fessor Robert Bowman , an American soil scientist , noted that ten weeks after transplanting , individual cabbages ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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