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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Hergott , looking for stray horses , found in a ragged washaway a dozen flowing springs , " good water , unlimited supply ” . Hergott Springs went down on the map where now is the railway town of Marree ... and a few miles on the ...
Hergott , looking for stray horses , found in a ragged washaway a dozen flowing springs , " good water , unlimited supply ” . Hergott Springs went down on the map where now is the railway town of Marree ... and a few miles on the ...
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Long strings loped over the sandhills and gibbers from Oodnadatta three weeks to Alice Springs , then over the spinifex hills and downs another five weeks to Newcastle Waters . They could go no farther north , for the ironwood - tree of ...
Long strings loped over the sandhills and gibbers from Oodnadatta three weeks to Alice Springs , then over the spinifex hills and downs another five weeks to Newcastle Waters . They could go no farther north , for the ironwood - tree of ...
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By the way , j'ever see them Alice Springs rubies ? I was in that rush , back in eighty - six . ... " How shall we tell of those women , few and far apart , who leave an immortal name in the Territory ? Evacuated from Ban Ban Springs to ...
By the way , j'ever see them Alice Springs rubies ? I was in that rush , back in eighty - six . ... " How shall we tell of those women , few and far apart , who leave an immortal name in the Territory ? Evacuated from Ban Ban Springs to ...
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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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Adelaide Australia Billy blacks blue brought bush called camp Captain carried cattle Chinese coast cook Creek crossing Daly dark Darwin dead death deep died Downs east eyes feet fifty fire five followed four friends gave give gold gone Government half hand head hills horses hundred miles Island John Katherine killed land leaving light living look lost months native never night once party passed Pine Port race rain ranges riding River road rode round rush sailed sand seven ship spears Springs square station stones Telegraph Territory thirty thousand miles told took town track travelled tree tribes turned twenty Wave week wife wild woman women young
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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