Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important, and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c., &c. London, T. and W. Boone, 1841, Volume 1Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 - Aboriginal Australians |
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Page 41
... colour ; beak , black , with a brown - coloured streak on each side of the lower mandible ; the whole body of a dirty black colour , acquiring a lighter tinge underneath . October 30. - I shot two male specimens of this last bird : the ...
... colour ; beak , black , with a brown - coloured streak on each side of the lower mandible ; the whole body of a dirty black colour , acquiring a lighter tinge underneath . October 30. - I shot two male specimens of this last bird : the ...
Page 60
... colour very pale blue down the back , bright prussian blue on each side ; it crawled about when taken out of the water , and lived for some time ; its fins , or fin - like legs ... coloured FLYING FISH . 61 place ; this colour then dies.
... colour very pale blue down the back , bright prussian blue on each side ; it crawled about when taken out of the water , and lived for some time ; its fins , or fin - like legs ... coloured FLYING FISH . 61 place ; this colour then dies.
Page 262
... COLOURS USED IN PAINTING . these colours are all known to the natives of the whole continent . The red they either dig ... colour obtained from the seed - vessel of a plant very com- mon there , and which , on being broken , yields a AGE ...
... COLOURS USED IN PAINTING . these colours are all known to the natives of the whole continent . The red they either dig ... colour obtained from the seed - vessel of a plant very com- mon there , and which , on being broken , yields a AGE ...
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acalepha amongst animal appeared Australia banks basaltic beach beak to tip beautiful Bernier Island birds BLOWING STONE boat Breadth breakfast Cape Captain caught cave cliffs coast Coles colour Diphya direction distance encampment feet fertile formed Glenelg Glenelg River ground Guanches halted Hanover Bay head hills horses island Kaiber kangaroo land Length from root Length from tip Length of foot lofty Lord Glenelg Lushington Lynher mangroves March miles MOLLUSCA morning mouth moved natives nearly night observed party passed Perth picul ponies Prince Regent's River rain ravine resembling rocks rocky root to tip route Ruston sandstone range sandy Savignon schooner seen Sharks Sharks Bay shells shore side soon southward spear species spot Steep Point stream Swan River Teneriffe tentacula tion tip of beak tip of tail tip of wing trees valley vessel Walker Western Australia whilst wind wooded