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 312
Sam Muggleton , head stockman , had ridden out after cattle with the boys , leaving no one in camp but Hamilton , the cook , and a trusted lubra named Myra . They had killed a bullock for meat and Hamilton was cutting it up when a half ...
Sam Muggleton , head stockman , had ridden out after cattle with the boys , leaving no one in camp but Hamilton , the cook , and a trusted lubra named Myra . They had killed a bullock for meat and Hamilton was cutting it up when a half ...
Page 426
If you had a camp cook he rang the changes on " tinned dog ” with curry or sea - pie ; “ Burdekin duck ” ... “ Down in Central " they specialized in " Phar Laps " , wild dog with the hair burnt off , trussed and cooked in the ashes à ...
If you had a camp cook he rang the changes on " tinned dog ” with curry or sea - pie ; “ Burdekin duck ” ... “ Down in Central " they specialized in " Phar Laps " , wild dog with the hair burnt off , trussed and cooked in the ashes à ...
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The year's best dinner was often a dry johnnie - cake on a dry stage , or a hunk of salt beef an ' rain if you was ridin ' tracks in the wet - no fire to cook a damper or boil the billy . If I was in at the hut , an ' remembered ...
The year's best dinner was often a dry johnnie - cake on a dry stage , or a hunk of salt beef an ' rain if you was ridin ' tracks in the wet - no fire to cook a damper or boil the billy . If I was in at the hut , an ' remembered ...
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So if this book is called The Territory - why is the cover an image of the state of Queensland?
Contents
Chapter Page 1 WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Territory Walkabout pocketbooks |
| Author | Ernestine Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0725400196, 9780725400194 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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