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 155
... took up twenty thousand acres for coffee and sugar at Beatrice Hills , and Sergison fifteen thousand acres . The Honourable James Munro of Melbourne secured ten thousand acres and sent up John MacDonald , a sugar authority of Queens ...
... took up twenty thousand acres for coffee and sugar at Beatrice Hills , and Sergison fifteen thousand acres . The Honourable James Munro of Melbourne secured ten thousand acres and sent up John MacDonald , a sugar authority of Queens ...
Page 205
... took nearly four years . Many Chinese were killed on the line and the gangs ran off to gold . White men drifted away from the mines . Sweating all day in the shafts and all night in their shacks , with no recrea- tion but rum , in that ...
... took nearly four years . Many Chinese were killed on the line and the gangs ran off to gold . White men drifted away from the mines . Sweating all day in the shafts and all night in their shacks , with no recrea- tion but rum , in that ...
Page 382
... took the boy to share his haphazard life . He did no good in Darwin . He would not work for wages . Paddy Cahill on his famous horse , St Lawrence , was now playing his game of St George and the dragon out among the crocodiles and ...
... took the boy to share his haphazard life . He did no good in Darwin . He would not work for wages . Paddy Cahill on his famous horse , St Lawrence , was now playing his game of St George and the dragon out among the crocodiles and ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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