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 91
No ship had called in eight months , it had precious little dinner , and what was H.M.S. Pioneer ? Until she arrived in port she was hidden by a belt of mangroves the blacks rush up to tell of a mob of wild blackfellows coming in from ...
No ship had called in eight months , it had precious little dinner , and what was H.M.S. Pioneer ? Until she arrived in port she was hidden by a belt of mangroves the blacks rush up to tell of a mob of wild blackfellows coming in from ...
Page 169
Three more months to Katherine , there seventeen of the men went down with fever , to be carried in wagons to Darwin , two hundred and twenty miles . The rest of the sheep were shorn , and the wool went down at freight of £ 46 a ton ...
Three more months to Katherine , there seventeen of the men went down with fever , to be carried in wagons to Darwin , two hundred and twenty miles . The rest of the sheep were shorn , and the wool went down at freight of £ 46 a ton ...
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Along the Ord and the Fitzroy it was five months ' riding to Beagle Bay , where they arrived starved and barefooted . With the well - known pastoralist Lumley Hill of Queensland , Michael formed Lissadell Station on Ord River , second ...
Along the Ord and the Fitzroy it was five months ' riding to Beagle Bay , where they arrived starved and barefooted . With the well - known pastoralist Lumley Hill of Queensland , Michael formed Lissadell Station on Ord River , second ...
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So if this book is called The Territory - why is the cover an image of the state of Queensland?
Contents
Chapter Page 1 WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Territory Walkabout pocketbooks |
| Author | Ernestine Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson, 1951 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0725400196, 9780725400194 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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