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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Nine mail services , often enough by packhorses , tried to cover four hundred thousand square miles — the rest was out of ken . Blacks still carried letters in a split stick , addressed with a cattle brand . Transport , in some regions ...
Nine mail services , often enough by packhorses , tried to cover four hundred thousand square miles — the rest was out of ken . Blacks still carried letters in a split stick , addressed with a cattle brand . Transport , in some regions ...
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With a couple of million square miles of soil and sun to play with instead of a third - story window - box in a snow - swept city square , he germinated ideas . Translating his science from the Baltic into terms of Fannie Bay , he roped ...
With a couple of million square miles of soil and sun to play with instead of a third - story window - box in a snow - swept city square , he germinated ideas . Translating his science from the Baltic into terms of Fannie Bay , he roped ...
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The Government Resident's report for 1899 showed an income of £ 84,000 in gold from 2740 acres of mineral lease ; £ 86,000 in pearling ; 187,000 square miles of pastoral country occupied and 27,500 square miles of it stocked .
The Government Resident's report for 1899 showed an income of £ 84,000 in gold from 2740 acres of mineral lease ; £ 86,000 in pearling ; 187,000 square miles of pastoral country occupied and 27,500 square miles of it stocked .
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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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