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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... carrying spinifex nets and fish . Grid of stones was silver - veiled with salt - bush , a lush green feed for the ... carried him joyously on five hundred miles to Peake Creek and a new river , the Neale , steep banks and flood drift ...
... carrying spinifex nets and fish . Grid of stones was silver - veiled with salt - bush , a lush green feed for the ... carried him joyously on five hundred miles to Peake Creek and a new river , the Neale , steep banks and flood drift ...
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... carried a life - and - death telegram to Todd , carried it in an open boat across the Gulf of Carpentaria to Normanton then , riding , to the nearest telegraph station at Gilbert River in Queensland . For Queens- land , with the end in ...
... carried a life - and - death telegram to Todd , carried it in an open boat across the Gulf of Carpentaria to Normanton then , riding , to the nearest telegraph station at Gilbert River in Queensland . For Queens- land , with the end in ...
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... carry stores and machinery to the miner . Thirty Chinamen to a team would carry two tons for a hundred and twenty ... carried away , and none of them paid even for a miner's right . " No savvy . Plenty dig . " The good news in China ...
... carry stores and machinery to the miner . Thirty Chinamen to a team would carry two tons for a hundred and twenty ... carried away , and none of them paid even for a miner's right . " No savvy . Plenty dig . " The good news in China ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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