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 69
... nomads of the red crags and misty billabongs in that stormy sea of ranges , ran with the terrible tidings of the devil - riders , man and beast as one , centaurs of another world , crossing the rubicon from time into the dreaming .
... nomads of the red crags and misty billabongs in that stormy sea of ranges , ran with the terrible tidings of the devil - riders , man and beast as one , centaurs of another world , crossing the rubicon from time into the dreaming .
Page 193
When the cattle and gold mobs were passing by , Calvert River crossing was like Pitt Street at peak hour , but when there was no one for months at a time , Mackie went about , revolver on hip , drinking his ancestral whisky to keep up ...
When the cattle and gold mobs were passing by , Calvert River crossing was like Pitt Street at peak hour , but when there was no one for months at a time , Mackie went about , revolver on hip , drinking his ancestral whisky to keep up ...
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Mrs Townshend was seriously ill . A letter was posted in his canvas bags , calling for the Darwin doctor . Twelve miles out , he found the river in high Alood at Campbell's Creek crossing . His only companion was a little blackboy .
Mrs Townshend was seriously ill . A letter was posted in his canvas bags , calling for the Darwin doctor . Twelve miles out , he found the river in high Alood at Campbell's Creek crossing . His only companion was a little blackboy .
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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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Adelaide Australia Billy blacks blue brought bush called camp Captain carried cattle Chinese coast cook Creek crossing Daly dark Darwin dead death deep died Downs east eyes feet fifty fire five followed four friends gave give gold gone Government half hand head hills horses hundred miles Island John Katherine killed land leaving light living look lost months native never night once party passed Pine Port race rain ranges riding River road rode round rush sailed sand seven ship spears Springs square station stones Telegraph Territory thirty thousand miles told took town track travelled tree tribes turned twenty Wave week wife wild woman women young
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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