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 139
... wave foamed through and swamped them , sweeping the decks with panic . Men clung to the shrouds , women to their children . Little Monsieur Durand darted about making shrill outcry that somebody had stolen his Gladstone bag with £ 3000 ...
... wave foamed through and swamped them , sweeping the decks with panic . Men clung to the shrouds , women to their children . Little Monsieur Durand darted about making shrill outcry that somebody had stolen his Gladstone bag with £ 3000 ...
Page 170
... Wave Hill , first station in the western Territory . He was back that year , riding ahead of two thousand five hundred cattle , ninety bulls and a hundred and sixty horses to stock Victoria River Downs for Fisher and Lyons . Lindsay ...
... Wave Hill , first station in the western Territory . He was back that year , riding ahead of two thousand five hundred cattle , ninety bulls and a hundred and sixty horses to stock Victoria River Downs for Fisher and Lyons . Lindsay ...
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... Wave Hill on the long ride to the west , the first hundred and forty miles is Murran - ji Track , the northern rim of noth- ing , most notorious dry stage of Australia in the number of its deaths by thirst and fever . There were three ...
... Wave Hill on the long ride to the west , the first hundred and forty miles is Murran - ji Track , the northern rim of noth- ing , most notorious dry stage of Australia in the number of its deaths by thirst and fever . There were three ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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