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 172
... cattle across a continent unrivalled in the world's history , a classic of flocks and herds right out of the Old Testament , but on a mightier and more heroic scale . Soon the black - soil and Mitchell grass plains of the Barklys were ...
... cattle across a continent unrivalled in the world's history , a classic of flocks and herds right out of the Old Testament , but on a mightier and more heroic scale . Soon the black - soil and Mitchell grass plains of the Barklys were ...
Page 233
... cattle - duffing units in the ranges . There was no mail , and tele- grams , contracting for thousands of cattle to be delivered by a certain date , were left at Katherine or Wyndham till somebody was going that way - a two - hundred ...
... cattle - duffing units in the ranges . There was no mail , and tele- grams , contracting for thousands of cattle to be delivered by a certain date , were left at Katherine or Wyndham till somebody was going that way - a two - hundred ...
Page 298
... cattle had to travel in small mobs , two or three days between them , waiting for the water to make . For twenty years the blacks and sandstorms were left to their own sweet will . In 1930 , when Wiluna was opened up as a gold - mining ...
... cattle had to travel in small mobs , two or three days between them , waiting for the water to make . For twenty years the blacks and sandstorms were left to their own sweet will . In 1930 , when Wiluna was opened up as a gold - mining ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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