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 38
No policeman ever came round our way , and a white man never had any trouble till the missionaries came , then there was a court case a week . Funny how Christianity scts everybody fighting . The blacks used to love the tripang work ...
No policeman ever came round our way , and a white man never had any trouble till the missionaries came , then there was a court case a week . Funny how Christianity scts everybody fighting . The blacks used to love the tripang work ...
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... soddy in the middle so it would stick to their ribs and " tuck - out longtime ” , a couple of quart billies of rice , two buckets of tea , strung by the handles on a sapling , and two sticks of tobacco each all round .
... soddy in the middle so it would stick to their ribs and " tuck - out longtime ” , a couple of quart billies of rice , two buckets of tea , strung by the handles on a sapling , and two sticks of tobacco each all round .
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“ Ridin ' round in a gully out there , you'd hear a dog bark . That means blacks on walkabout . Put in the double of your whip and race down , cuttin ' out the lubras — the bucks keep on gallopin ' . Then you take your pick and swing ...
“ Ridin ' round in a gully out there , you'd hear a dog bark . That means blacks on walkabout . Put in the double of your whip and race down , cuttin ' out the lubras — the bucks keep on gallopin ' . Then you take your pick and swing ...
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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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Adelaide Australia Billy blacks blue brought bush called camp Captain carried cattle Chinese coast cook Creek crossing Daly dark Darwin dead death deep died Downs east eyes feet fifty fire five followed four friends gave give gold gone Government half hand head hills horses hundred miles Island John Katherine killed land leaving light living look lost months native never night once party passed Pine Port race rain ranges riding River road rode round rush sailed sand seven ship spears Springs square station stones Telegraph Territory thirty thousand miles told took town track travelled tree tribes turned twenty Wave week wife wild woman women young
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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