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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... stockman left , badly needed a cook . Harry Bates - or - Bathern was the stockman , later the famous " Bulwaddie " Bates , pioneer of Beetaloo . Harry boiled the beef and baked the brownie with his spurs on , afraid it should be bruited ...
... stockman left , badly needed a cook . Harry Bates - or - Bathern was the stockman , later the famous " Bulwaddie " Bates , pioneer of Beetaloo . Harry boiled the beef and baked the brownie with his spurs on , afraid it should be bruited ...
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Ernestine Hill. who had been head stockman on Mount Cornish , Alexandria , Tyson's Tin- nenburra , John Costello's Lake Nash or Bluey Buchanan's Wave Hill was respected till the day of his death . A dandy when he liked was the stockman ...
Ernestine Hill. who had been head stockman on Mount Cornish , Alexandria , Tyson's Tin- nenburra , John Costello's Lake Nash or Bluey Buchanan's Wave Hill was respected till the day of his death . A dandy when he liked was the stockman ...
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... stockman a message by a black - boy , or by one of the white hands . He pays him the courtesy of a writ- ten note , even when the head stockman cannot read , in which case the mes- senger is asked to convey , casually and without ...
... stockman a message by a black - boy , or by one of the white hands . He pays him the courtesy of a writ- ten note , even when the head stockman cannot read , in which case the mes- senger is asked to convey , casually and without ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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