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 17
... light , pools of stippled silver where piccaninnies go swimming and little Johnson crocodiles smile ... where the blue flamingo dances and the white heron wears her egret plumes unseen , and where the lunar rainbow plays all summer ...
... light , pools of stippled silver where piccaninnies go swimming and little Johnson crocodiles smile ... where the blue flamingo dances and the white heron wears her egret plumes unseen , and where the lunar rainbow plays all summer ...
Page 65
... light , at noon an irri- tated scarlet , gentle mauve at twilight ... valley after valley , rise after rise , colours and horizons fading down to foreground of stereoscopic brown stones . On the shore of ten thousand square miles of ...
... light , at noon an irri- tated scarlet , gentle mauve at twilight ... valley after valley , rise after rise , colours and horizons fading down to foreground of stereoscopic brown stones . On the shore of ten thousand square miles of ...
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... light - heartedly adopted the tropics with no more than a hundred and eighty thousand men , women , and children adrift in a round million square miles . It was the time of gold fever and landtaker greed . The Government was elated ...
... light - heartedly adopted the tropics with no more than a hundred and eighty thousand men , women , and children adrift in a round million square miles . It was the time of gold fever and landtaker greed . The Government was elated ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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