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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... 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 , was a donkey team a year . Milk and butter had never been seen . To borrow a bag of ...
... 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 , was a donkey team a year . Milk and butter had never been seen . To borrow a bag of ...
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... 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 in a gang of dumb ...
... 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 in a gang of dumb ...
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... square miles of pastoral country occupied and 27,500 square miles of it stocked . About 30,000 square miles were surrendered because of cattle tick . Ten thousand cattle were shipped to Singapore . High floods that year drowned the work ...
... square miles of pastoral country occupied and 27,500 square miles of it stocked . About 30,000 square miles were surrendered because of cattle tick . Ten thousand cattle were shipped to Singapore . High floods that year drowned the work ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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