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 384
... bush life in the north , he had wandered into the bush at such a place with no revolver " . Remembering the death of Mamialucum , Darwin was incredulous , then philosophic . In the precise weaving of the fates , Rodney Spencer " got ...
... bush life in the north , he had wandered into the bush at such a place with no revolver " . Remembering the death of Mamialucum , Darwin was incredulous , then philosophic . In the precise weaving of the fates , Rodney Spencer " got ...
Page 422
... bush romance , with a camp under a shady tree , a spiral of blue smoke and a billy boiling - wistful mirror , silently dream- ing , reflecting a continent's history . The Australian bush gives you liberty , fraternity and equality in ...
... bush romance , with a camp under a shady tree , a spiral of blue smoke and a billy boiling - wistful mirror , silently dream- ing , reflecting a continent's history . The Australian bush gives you liberty , fraternity and equality in ...
Page 439
... bush - comedy , tragedy and satire , everything that happened in their days . The bush poet was as sure of a drink as Homer . These " poy - ems " , written on scraps of brown paper and treasured in swags , or learnt in the flickering ...
... bush - comedy , tragedy and satire , everything that happened in their days . The bush poet was as sure of a drink as Homer . These " poy - ems " , written on scraps of brown paper and treasured in swags , or learnt in the flickering ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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