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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... young men and women , great cities will grow up there within forty years . No country in the world offers greater opportunites for young people . " The bagmen of today , the " old death - adders Major Mitchelling around " , they were the ...
... young men and women , great cities will grow up there within forty years . No country in the world offers greater opportunites for young people . " The bagmen of today , the " old death - adders Major Mitchelling around " , they were the ...
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... Young Bob , then a lad of sixteen , in charge of the wagon loaded with corrugated iron to build the house and their ... Young Bob- her five children were born far out in the Limmen River bush . They lived on a few goats and a good garden ...
... Young Bob , then a lad of sixteen , in charge of the wagon loaded with corrugated iron to build the house and their ... Young Bob- her five children were born far out in the Limmen River bush . They lived on a few goats and a good garden ...
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... young children in that bleak homestead on the rim of desert , seventy miles south of Victoria River Downs . ... of Mrs Len Patterson , two years out with her husband , making the roads to Wave Hill and cooking for all on the track ...
... young children in that bleak homestead on the rim of desert , seventy miles south of Victoria River Downs . ... of Mrs Len Patterson , two years out with her husband , making the roads to Wave Hill and cooking for all on the track ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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