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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Page 117
... Telegraph Number Two , to circle the Great Australian Bight for sixteen hundred miles to West Australia . Of the type of the late Dr J. J. C. Bradfield , designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge , who offered his engineering genius to his ...
... Telegraph Number Two , to circle the Great Australian Bight for sixteen hundred miles to West Australia . Of the type of the late Dr J. J. C. Bradfield , designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge , who offered his engineering genius to his ...
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... Telegraph history . That was a fidelity surpassing love of women . The first telegraphists of those incredibly lonely outposts , at 8s . a day and rations , gave their lives to the Line . Most of them died there , forgotten men , but ...
... Telegraph history . That was a fidelity surpassing love of women . The first telegraphists of those incredibly lonely outposts , at 8s . a day and rations , gave their lives to the Line . Most of them died there , forgotten men , but ...
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... telegraph men were the best euchre players in Australia . A half - caste cricket team played on the green on Sundays ... Telegraph men , Alan Giles , whose story , in The Great Australian Loneliness , I have told . Powell's Creek , the ...
... telegraph men were the best euchre players in Australia . A half - caste cricket team played on the green on Sundays ... Telegraph men , Alan Giles , whose story , in The Great Australian Loneliness , I have told . Powell's Creek , the ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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