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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The Telegraph bullock - team dragged a ten - head stamp battery a hundred and fifty miles over the hills to Lady Alice , and miners carried their stone to it fifty miles . First crushing gave seventy - seven ounces to the ton at Union ...
The Telegraph bullock - team dragged a ten - head stamp battery a hundred and fifty miles over the hills to Lady Alice , and miners carried their stone to it fifty miles . First crushing gave seventy - seven ounces to the ton at Union ...
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To these Dr Gilruth later added a fourth , for the breeding of horses and sheep , the wholesome pastures and miracle springs of Mataranka , two hundred and fifty miles south and eight hundred feet above sea - level ... there he would ...
To these Dr Gilruth later added a fourth , for the breeding of horses and sheep , the wholesome pastures and miracle springs of Mataranka , two hundred and fifty miles south and eight hundred feet above sea - level ... there he would ...
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Deep in the maze , fifty miles from the Bucket , is the waterhole that gives the Track its name - Murrunjai , frog - no more than rain - water shallows in grey clay , seventy yards across , with ramparts of the sinister soundless scrub ...
Deep in the maze , fifty miles from the Bucket , is the waterhole that gives the Track its name - Murrunjai , frog - no more than rain - water shallows in grey clay , seventy yards across , with ramparts of the sinister soundless scrub ...
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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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