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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... week from Southampton to Rose Bay , Sydney . Com- pleting the circle of the continent , MacRobertson Miller Airways from Perth linked up with the English mail at Darwin . Australia opened the Front Gate . Up went the swing of the graph ...
... week from Southampton to Rose Bay , Sydney . Com- pleting the circle of the continent , MacRobertson Miller Airways from Perth linked up with the English mail at Darwin . Australia opened the Front Gate . Up went the swing of the graph ...
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... weeks on the trail , about forty miles to each water , though once he covered a dry stage of a hundred and five miles ... week . The humble ringers of the drovers ' camps trebled their wages to £ 1 a day , with overtime for night- watch ...
... weeks on the trail , about forty miles to each water , though once he covered a dry stage of a hundred and five miles ... week . The humble ringers of the drovers ' camps trebled their wages to £ 1 a day , with overtime for night- watch ...
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... week in the Government Gazette rules and regulations set sedition ablaze . The Government owned one half the town ... week by week as " His Obstinacy " , " Kiltruth " , " Gilruthless ” , “ the Administraitor ” —an auto- crat of ...
... week in the Government Gazette rules and regulations set sedition ablaze . The Government owned one half the town ... week by week as " His Obstinacy " , " Kiltruth " , " Gilruthless ” , “ the Administraitor ” —an auto- crat of ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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