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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In 1889 at last the little three - feet gauge crept up to Pine Creek . For the gala opening of the trans - continental , Mr Langdon Parsons named the day . The Iron Horse ! There it stood in the railway yards in a triumphal arch of ...
In 1889 at last the little three - feet gauge crept up to Pine Creek . For the gala opening of the trans - continental , Mr Langdon Parsons named the day . The Iron Horse ! There it stood in the railway yards in a triumphal arch of ...
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There were two women in the rush — Mrs May Brown , six hundred and fifty miles in a buggy from Pine Creek ; Mrs Christina Gordon , the Grand Old Lady of Darwin , who travelled with her husband , his twin brother and her two young sons ...
There were two women in the rush — Mrs May Brown , six hundred and fifty miles in a buggy from Pine Creek ; Mrs Christina Gordon , the Grand Old Lady of Darwin , who travelled with her husband , his twin brother and her two young sons ...
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Their acclimatization as Australians began at Pine Creek . The teacher who followed Mrs Niemannwe shall call her Miss Trim - boarded with a railway fettler who thrashed his wife . Miss Trim complained to the police .
Their acclimatization as Australians began at Pine Creek . The teacher who followed Mrs Niemannwe shall call her Miss Trim - boarded with a railway fettler who thrashed his wife . Miss Trim complained to the police .
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So if this book is called The Territory - why is the cover an image of the state of Queensland?
Contents
Chapter Page 1 WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Territory Walkabout pocketbooks |
| Author | Ernestine Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0725400196, 9780725400194 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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