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 122
... gold . ... and there it was , in the shattered quartz , a lightning streak of the fickle gold to a leader of a thousand ounces ! Red - hot along the telegraph wire they sent the news away . A second party rode past them , Adam Johns and ...
... gold . ... and there it was , in the shattered quartz , a lightning streak of the fickle gold to a leader of a thousand ounces ! Red - hot along the telegraph wire they sent the news away . A second party rode past them , Adam Johns and ...
Page 183
... gold - rush by Jock McPhee's track . It shortened the distance from the Kimberley coasts to a mere three hundred miles - if they came through alive . At the end of 1885 there were two thousand miners around Hall's Creek living in bough ...
... gold - rush by Jock McPhee's track . It shortened the distance from the Kimberley coasts to a mere three hundred miles - if they came through alive . At the end of 1885 there were two thousand miners around Hall's Creek living in bough ...
Page 417
... gold " that , long before Ion Idriess made drama of a long - drawn desert ride to death , was a novel founded largely on the fictions of King Solomon's Mines . In this year , 1951 , the Territory proudly announces a mineral revenue of ...
... gold " that , long before Ion Idriess made drama of a long - drawn desert ride to death , was a novel founded largely on the fictions of King Solomon's Mines . In this year , 1951 , the Territory proudly announces a mineral revenue of ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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