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 192
... rush , with their hand - carts and wagons , made the first road west , the Old Coast Road from Burketown to Derby , but few are living to remember who they were . Esau , an Afghan hawker , set out from Hughenden with camels , and gave ...
... rush , with their hand - carts and wagons , made the first road west , the Old Coast Road from Burketown to Derby , but few are living to remember who they were . Esau , an Afghan hawker , set out from Hughenden with camels , and gave ...
Page 258
... rush of men and horses drank the rockhole dry , Bill and Jack Lawrie carried their shovels from the golden claim to dig a well of sweet , dark , evil water a hundred feet deep , soon putrid with vermin and the car- casses of wild dogs ...
... rush of men and horses drank the rockhole dry , Bill and Jack Lawrie carried their shovels from the golden claim to dig a well of sweet , dark , evil water a hundred feet deep , soon putrid with vermin and the car- casses of wild dogs ...
Page 393
... rush , back in eighty - six . . . ... 99 How shall we tell of those women , few and far apart , who leave an im- mortal name in the Territory ? Evacuated from Ban Ban Springs to Adelaide in 1942 was Mrs Bob Farrar , after fifty - two ...
... rush , back in eighty - six . . . ... 99 How shall we tell of those women , few and far apart , who leave an im- mortal name in the Territory ? Evacuated from Ban Ban Springs to Adelaide in 1942 was Mrs Bob Farrar , after fifty - two ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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