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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... Pine Creek . She came back loaded with navvies and diggers on a spree , the brake - van shining like Aladdin's cave with two thousand ounces of Pine Creek gold and two hundred ingots of silver from Eveleen . Alas , to the Land of Upside ...
... Pine Creek . She came back loaded with navvies and diggers on a spree , the brake - van shining like Aladdin's cave with two thousand ounces of Pine Creek gold and two hundred ingots of silver from Eveleen . Alas , to the Land of Upside ...
Page 258
... Pine Creek ; Mrs Christina Gordon , the Grand Old Lady of Darwin , who travelled with her husband , his twin brother and her two young sons , Cookie and Wallie , in a spring - cart with goats and fowls over a thousand miles to Tanami ...
... Pine Creek ; Mrs Christina Gordon , the Grand Old Lady of Darwin , who travelled with her husband , his twin brother and her two young sons , Cookie and Wallie , in a spring - cart with goats and fowls over a thousand miles to Tanami ...
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... Pine Creek , first school outside Darwin , its teacher Mrs Niemann . Two or three drovers brought their families up from Katherine to camp on " the royal road " . For white children only , its orbit widened in a peculiar way . The ...
... Pine Creek , first school outside Darwin , its teacher Mrs Niemann . Two or three drovers brought their families up from Katherine to camp on " the royal road " . For white children only , its orbit widened in a peculiar way . The ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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