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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... hand " . They planted two acres of cowpeas and pumpkin to sweeten the earth . So delighted was Dr Gilruth with the girth of a giant pumpkin that he worshipped at its shrine , mentioned it in dispatches , published its photo- graph in ...
... hand " . They planted two acres of cowpeas and pumpkin to sweeten the earth . So delighted was Dr Gilruth with the girth of a giant pumpkin that he worshipped at its shrine , mentioned it in dispatches , published its photo- graph in ...
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... hand with his knife . Caliph picked up the steel , and they fought like devils . Myra ran after Muggleton's horse ... hands where station hands are few . Even a Justice of the Peace has a broader view of the world when his patch is ten ...
... hand with his knife . Caliph picked up the steel , and they fought like devils . Myra ran after Muggleton's horse ... hands where station hands are few . Even a Justice of the Peace has a broader view of the world when his patch is ten ...
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... hand to hand , curl it round his neck like a python and cut a cigarette in half from a comrade's lips . " Quite easy , " one of the old hands told me . " It's only a matter of flexible thumbs and timin ' . You swing till it whistles ...
... hand to hand , curl it round his neck like a python and cut a cigarette in half from a comrade's lips . " Quite easy , " one of the old hands told me . " It's only a matter of flexible thumbs and timin ' . You swing till it whistles ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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