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 123
... 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 Reefs , six hundred and nine ounces to the ton at the Telegraph mine , eighty ...
... 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 Reefs , six hundred and nine ounces to the ton at the Telegraph mine , eighty ...
Page 275
... fifty miles south and eight hundred feet above sea - level . . . there he would establish stud stock and fodder fields . Mataranka was to be the inland capital . Applications for land were legion , some from New Zealand , from England ...
... fifty miles south and eight hundred feet above sea - level . . . there he would establish stud stock and fodder fields . Mataranka was to be the inland capital . Applications for land were legion , some from New Zealand , from England ...
Page 300
... fifty yards away . Hedgewood scrubs crawl on for a long fifty miles - ten miles a day with cattle to Yellow Waterholes , at their best a broken creek with a few spec- tral gum - trees and etiolated yellow lilies , but most of the year a ...
... fifty yards away . Hedgewood scrubs crawl on for a long fifty miles - ten miles a day with cattle to Yellow Waterholes , at their best a broken creek with a few spec- tral gum - trees and etiolated yellow lilies , but most of the year a ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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