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 153
... thirty feet , with two noble chimneys , sixty feet high , of ant - hill cement and ironstone . He imported a hundred and twenty tons of machinery - rollers to crush ninety tons of cane a day , vats to hold thirty thousand gallons of ...
... thirty feet , with two noble chimneys , sixty feet high , of ant - hill cement and ironstone . He imported a hundred and twenty tons of machinery - rollers to crush ninety tons of cane a day , vats to hold thirty thousand gallons of ...
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... thirty - five inches in a week , no news in five months from Daly River settlers . Edith , Cullen and Ferguson rivers drowned the railway camps , drowned some of the men , among them " Peter the Viking " , a Nordic giant out in a boat ...
... thirty - five inches in a week , no news in five months from Daly River settlers . Edith , Cullen and Ferguson rivers drowned the railway camps , drowned some of the men , among them " Peter the Viking " , a Nordic giant out in a boat ...
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... thirty miles away - a weekly paper or two and lessons from the correspond- ence school two thousand miles away in Brisbane . Until the older children built an excellent fire - ploughed road across that thirty miles , no traveller came ...
... thirty miles away - a weekly paper or two and lessons from the correspond- ence school two thousand miles away in Brisbane . Until the older children built an excellent fire - ploughed road across that thirty miles , no traveller came ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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