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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He turned to reclaim it , and went under ... for good . They never found his body when the river fell , but they did find an eighteen - foot man - eater in a pool near by . It had cruised up from the Daly in high tides , an evil fate ...
He turned to reclaim it , and went under ... for good . They never found his body when the river fell , but they did find an eighteen - foot man - eater in a pool near by . It had cruised up from the Daly in high tides , an evil fate ...
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All eyes turned to Tanami . Tom Worgan , the mining warden , came out five hundred and fourteen miles from Katherine on a bicycle , through Wave Hill and Inverway and south through nothing but that lair of the myalls , Frog Valley ...
All eyes turned to Tanami . Tom Worgan , the mining warden , came out five hundred and fourteen miles from Katherine on a bicycle , through Wave Hill and Inverway and south through nothing but that lair of the myalls , Frog Valley ...
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... at Katherine when a lubra , swift as a shadow , drifted in behind a broom . She picked up my travelling clock of imitation grained marble , and turned it over curiously in her long fingers . “ Binkal ” she said with a smile . “ [ 342 ]
... at Katherine when a lubra , swift as a shadow , drifted in behind a broom . She picked up my travelling clock of imitation grained marble , and turned it over curiously in her long fingers . “ Binkal ” she said with a smile . “ [ 342 ]
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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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