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 44
... feet deep and ten feet wide . Within is a well in one corner , three wooden houses for the gentle- men , a bough shed barracks for soldiers with hammocks under the trees , thirteen grass huts for settlers and seven for Royal Marines ...
... feet deep and ten feet wide . Within is a well in one corner , three wooden houses for the gentle- men , a bough shed barracks for soldiers with hammocks under the trees , thirteen grass huts for settlers and seven for Royal Marines ...
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... feet sheer , twenty feet through and only ten feet wide , set on a pedestal hill a hundred feet high , they could see it for twelve miles . Monolith of age- old phallic symbolism , one of the many weird works of erosion in these virgin ...
... feet sheer , twenty feet through and only ten feet wide , set on a pedestal hill a hundred feet high , they could see it for twelve miles . Monolith of age- old phallic symbolism , one of the many weird works of erosion in these virgin ...
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... feet by sixty - four feet , boiler- sheds and sugar - store seventy feet by thirty feet , with two noble chimneys , sixty feet high , of ant - hill cement and ironstone . He imported a hundred and twenty tons of machinery - rollers to ...
... feet by sixty - four feet , boiler- sheds and sugar - store seventy feet by thirty feet , with two noble chimneys , sixty feet high , of ant - hill cement and ironstone . He imported a hundred and twenty tons of machinery - rollers to ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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