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Page 43
... camels bringing water from Gnarlbine in thirty - three - gallon casks , two on each camel , for the few men , prospectors , and government officials who remained on Cool- gardie . With the first rains of 1893 the men were on the move ...
... camels bringing water from Gnarlbine in thirty - three - gallon casks , two on each camel , for the few men , prospectors , and government officials who remained on Cool- gardie . With the first rains of 1893 the men were on the move ...
Page 48
... camel trains of forty to fifty animals . These brought in the stores , the heavy mining machinery , the boilers ... camels were watered at up to £ 1 a head . Water varied from a shilling to half a crown a gallon . Freight was high - up ...
... camel trains of forty to fifty animals . These brought in the stores , the heavy mining machinery , the boilers ... camels were watered at up to £ 1 a head . Water varied from a shilling to half a crown a gallon . Freight was high - up ...
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... camel teams of Faiz and Tagh Mahomet threaded Hannan's into the complex network of settlements they served from Geraldton to Cue , from Esperance and Southern Cross to Coolgardie . Faiz and Tagh had brought hundreds of camels over from ...
... camel teams of Faiz and Tagh Mahomet threaded Hannan's into the complex network of settlements they served from Geraldton to Cue , from Esperance and Southern Cross to Coolgardie . Faiz and Tagh had brought hundreds of camels over from ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
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