The Beckoning West: The Story of H. S. Trotman and the Canning Stock RouteAppendix 4 gives list of native waters and bores and wells sunk by members of Canning Stock Route party in 1908-10; p.58; Art of tracking described; p.75; Sandals made by natives found at Roy Hill; description of corroboree - songmen, dancers bodies decorated with paint and glued on down; p.87; Cooking of kangaroo described; p.88; Treatment of injuries; p.90; Brief description of circumcision method at initiation ceremony; p.127; Painted caves at Killagurra noted; method of catching spinifex rats described. |
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... Braeside Station on the Oakover River , about which I wrote to my sister : We have been travelling as fast as ... Braeside on 17th December the man- ager , Bert Hodgson , insisted that we take with us one of his station natives , an ...
... Braeside Station on the Oakover River , about which I wrote to my sister : We have been travelling as fast as ... Braeside on 17th December the man- ager , Bert Hodgson , insisted that we take with us one of his station natives , an ...
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... Braeside and there rest . My place was taken by a good bushman named Jack Con- naughton who was in that area with horses . This was fortun- ate as Rudall had received a wire from the Government requesting him to form a horse party for ...
... Braeside and there rest . My place was taken by a good bushman named Jack Con- naughton who was in that area with horses . This was fortun- ate as Rudall had received a wire from the Government requesting him to form a horse party for ...
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... Braeside gins were jealous of the attention paid by their own men to some of the desert amazons , and could see the rival women with four or five feet long sticks taking turns to deliver cracking blows to each other's skulls . It seemed ...
... Braeside gins were jealous of the attention paid by their own men to some of the desert amazons , and could see the rival women with four or five feet long sticks taking turns to deliver cracking blows to each other's skulls . It seemed ...
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Green Fields of Home | 1 |
The Beckoning West | 8 |
First Expedition | 14 |
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