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 121
... once towns of many mines , now names in nothing , each one a bottle - dump , an overgrown track to thousands of tons of rust , and a graveyard that only the old hands can find . Bullfrogs honk in mazes of waterless shafts that once ...
... once towns of many mines , now names in nothing , each one a bottle - dump , an overgrown track to thousands of tons of rust , and a graveyard that only the old hands can find . Bullfrogs honk in mazes of waterless shafts that once ...
Page 126
... once a week . For an hour of morn- ing and evening , passengers herded for recreation to a square of deck where the sick , from stretchers in the hold , were carried up for enough fresh air to die . Once ashore in Darwin , few had the a ...
... once a week . For an hour of morn- ing and evening , passengers herded for recreation to a square of deck where the sick , from stretchers in the hold , were carried up for enough fresh air to die . Once ashore in Darwin , few had the a ...
Page 372
... Once Larry and I felled one buffalo and had ridden on a second when the first recovered and came after us . We both went skyward . Another time , he and I and a buffalo bull went down together in a deep hole hidden in long grass . I was ...
... Once Larry and I felled one buffalo and had ridden on a second when the first recovered and came after us . We both went skyward . Another time , he and I and a buffalo bull went down together in a deep hole hidden in long grass . I was ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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