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 219
The bushmen camped on the river and nobody slept in the beds , but that pub rooted Katherine deep . Tom later took up Willeroo , a ghost station , abandoned since its blackfellow murders , and made a success of horse - breeding ...
The bushmen camped on the river and nobody slept in the beds , but that pub rooted Katherine deep . Tom later took up Willeroo , a ghost station , abandoned since its blackfellow murders , and made a success of horse - breeding ...
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Edith , Cullen and Ferguson rivers drowned the railway camps , drowned some of the men , among them “ Peter the Viking ” , a Nordic giant out in a boat saving life . Katherine River was four feet deep in the street of Katherine ...
Edith , Cullen and Ferguson rivers drowned the railway camps , drowned some of the men , among them “ Peter the Viking ” , a Nordic giant out in a boat saving life . Katherine River was four feet deep in the street of Katherine ...
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Every station garden north of the Tropic for seven months of the year is an indication of the wealth of that red earth , and for the other five months feet deep under water . Katherine River Gorge alone , twelve miles above the township ...
Every station garden north of the Tropic for seven months of the year is an indication of the wealth of that red earth , and for the other five months feet deep under water . Katherine River Gorge alone , twelve miles above the township ...
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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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