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... Southern Cross on New Year's Day , 1888 , and others probed still further south to Parker's Range , thirty miles from " The Cross . " From Parker's Range , Gilles McPherson followed Hunt's Track to Slate Well , on the Hampton Plains ...
... Southern Cross on New Year's Day , 1888 , and others probed still further south to Parker's Range , thirty miles from " The Cross . " From Parker's Range , Gilles McPherson followed Hunt's Track to Slate Well , on the Hampton Plains ...
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... Southern Cross where , in his bush camp , he gave sustenance to Gilles McPherson . For the next few years Bayley seems to have been continually on the move , mainly to and from the North - West fields , returning to Southern Cross for ...
... Southern Cross where , in his bush camp , he gave sustenance to Gilles McPherson . For the next few years Bayley seems to have been continually on the move , mainly to and from the North - West fields , returning to Southern Cross for ...
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... Southern Cross , and Ford gave Bayley the information he had obtained from Withers . Some day , they decided , they would cross the sand plain country together , and prospect the red , alluvial plains and low ridges to the east , too ...
... Southern Cross , and Ford gave Bayley the information he had obtained from Withers . Some day , they decided , they would cross the sand plain country together , and prospect the red , alluvial plains and low ridges to the east , too ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
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