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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... hills . It is also the secretion that penetrated the Resident's zinc - sealed wine - bottles and the B.A.T. billiard - balls . It can penetrate sheet iron and it can corrode glass . The termite armies seal themselves with it , and ...
... hills . It is also the secretion that penetrated the Resident's zinc - sealed wine - bottles and the B.A.T. billiard - balls . It can penetrate sheet iron and it can corrode glass . The termite armies seal themselves with it , and ...
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Ernestine Hill. the black - soil plains to the West Australian border . One more river to cross , the Ord , men and horses swimming , for the last hundred miles through the tumbled hills to Hall's Creek and Black Elvire . On that last ...
Ernestine Hill. the black - soil plains to the West Australian border . One more river to cross , the Ord , men and horses swimming , for the last hundred miles through the tumbled hills to Hall's Creek and Black Elvire . On that last ...
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... hills and downs another five weeks to Newcastle Waters . They could go no farther north , for the ironwood - tree of the tropics is poisonous to camels , but they took the track eastward to Brunette and Camooweal , west to Wave Hill and ...
... hills and downs another five weeks to Newcastle Waters . They could go no farther north , for the ironwood - tree of the tropics is poisonous to camels , but they took the track eastward to Brunette and Camooweal , west to Wave Hill and ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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