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 52
... friends . d'Urville sails to death and oblivion even as Lapérouse . Macassar - men come in to Knocker Bay with the north - west monsoon , campongs and smoke - houses all along the beach under the British flag . Britomart travels to ...
... friends . d'Urville sails to death and oblivion even as Lapérouse . Macassar - men come in to Knocker Bay with the north - west monsoon , campongs and smoke - houses all along the beach under the British flag . Britomart travels to ...
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... friends , the only friends in a sodden green prison . When the little grey pony , everybody's pet , was swept away in a creek , the party lost a week's meals with relief . Meticulous little ticks in McKinlay's diary tell the doleful ...
... friends , the only friends in a sodden green prison . When the little grey pony , everybody's pet , was swept away in a creek , the party lost a week's meals with relief . Meticulous little ticks in McKinlay's diary tell the doleful ...
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... friends of all his foes , and he was a magnificent bushman . " He could ride like a centaur and track the Holy Ghost through a thun- dercloud , " as his friend , Billie Miller , expressed it . He might have been twenty - five or so when ...
... friends of all his foes , and he was a magnificent bushman . " He could ride like a centaur and track the Holy Ghost through a thun- dercloud , " as his friend , Billie Miller , expressed it . He might have been twenty - five or so when ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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