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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... mangrove , and smoke it in a primitive smoke - house over green mangrove smouldering for days . Only grey trepang is found in Australian waters - the red is mandarins ' delight - but boiling it with roots of black mangrove tanned it a ...
... mangrove , and smoke it in a primitive smoke - house over green mangrove smouldering for days . Only grey trepang is found in Australian waters - the red is mandarins ' delight - but boiling it with roots of black mangrove tanned it a ...
Page 83
... mangroves by a dead coral reef , a well of swamp water and a few log huts were the first great thought for the second ... mangrove creeks to map out country lands . To young men nicely nurtured in county Adelaide , Adelaide River was a ...
... mangroves by a dead coral reef , a well of swamp water and a few log huts were the first great thought for the second ... mangrove creeks to map out country lands . To young men nicely nurtured in county Adelaide , Adelaide River was a ...
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... mangrove stakes and horse - hide . They had lived on horse , worn horse . Now they would sail in horse . Of the ... mangroves to cut saplings . Blacks were soon about , sullen salt - water men [ 89 ]
... mangrove stakes and horse - hide . They had lived on horse , worn horse . Now they would sail in horse . Of the ... mangroves to cut saplings . Blacks were soon about , sullen salt - water men [ 89 ]
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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