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 219
... wild apples for pies . He cultivated the fruits of the old garden and with black miners worked a silver lode thirty - six feet deep . In the wet he set the natives spinning wild kapok , and sold it in Darwin for 8d . a pound to stuff ...
... wild apples for pies . He cultivated the fruits of the old garden and with black miners worked a silver lode thirty - six feet deep . In the wet he set the natives spinning wild kapok , and sold it in Darwin for 8d . a pound to stuff ...
Page 246
... wild dogs , building the house , guarding the stores from wild blacks , so " Bradshaw's Buccaneers " formed Bradshaw's Run . Under their flag of all nations they enlisted a Russian named Egoriffe . Known to the whites as " Ivan the ...
... wild dogs , building the house , guarding the stores from wild blacks , so " Bradshaw's Buccaneers " formed Bradshaw's Run . Under their flag of all nations they enlisted a Russian named Egoriffe . Known to the whites as " Ivan the ...
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... wild blacks crept round Point Charles into Darwin Harbour . It was Nebraska , Jack Bulanda in command . A boy of nineteen , with no knowledge of navigation , he had brought her four hundred miles in the hurricane season , landing here ...
... wild blacks crept round Point Charles into Darwin Harbour . It was Nebraska , Jack Bulanda in command . A boy of nineteen , with no knowledge of navigation , he had brought her four hundred miles in the hurricane season , landing here ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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