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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 73
Page 122
... brought three shiploads of diggers who sailed right past Port Darwin to Blackmore River , dumped stores in the mud and scrambled through the mangroves , ships ' crews after them , leaving skippers with a few kanakas to trim sails ...
... brought three shiploads of diggers who sailed right past Port Darwin to Blackmore River , dumped stores in the mud and scrambled through the mangroves , ships ' crews after them , leaving skippers with a few kanakas to trim sails ...
Page 130
... brought back cakes of smelted gold , a white man with a rifle walking beside them . For these fag - ends of humanity who had never known a square meal in their lives , luck was a fortune . One glimpse of the yellow gold , and with their ...
... brought back cakes of smelted gold , a white man with a rifle walking beside them . For these fag - ends of humanity who had never known a square meal in their lives , luck was a fortune . One glimpse of the yellow gold , and with their ...
Page 136
... brought everything the heart of man in the Territory could desire - even woman , three of the species . She brought fresh flour , bully and bullocky's joy ; Lemon Hart rum , bulk beer , English hams , pickles , onions , dried potatoes ...
... brought everything the heart of man in the Territory could desire - even woman , three of the species . She brought fresh flour , bully and bullocky's joy ; Lemon Hart rum , bulk beer , English hams , pickles , onions , dried potatoes ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
Copyright | |
27 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aboriginal acres Adelaide River Alice Springs Arnhem Land beach beef Billy black-boy blackfellow blacks blue Borroloola buffalo bush bushmen camp Captain cattle Chinese cliffs coast corroboree crocodiles Daly dead desert drovers Fannie Bay feet fifty fire flour gold Government Gulf harbour head horses hundred miles Island Jack jungle Katherine Kimberley lagoons Larrakia living lubra lugger Malay mangrove Melville Island months Murran-ji myalls native never night Northern Territory packhorses paperbark Pine Creek Port Darwin Port Essington Queensland race railway rain ranges reef riding road rode Roper round sailed sand scrub shack ship South Australia spears spinifex square miles station stockman stones Stuart Stuart Highway swag Sydney Telegraph thousand miles track travelled tree tribes trooper tucker twenty Victoria River Downs waterhole Wave Hill week wild women