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Page 119
Old hands remember a night long ago at Powell's Creek when little Billy Gents , the operator , passed on to a camp of drovers , as the Telegraph always did , the news of the night . Marconi had perfected radio - telegraphy , " That ...
Old hands remember a night long ago at Powell's Creek when little Billy Gents , the operator , passed on to a camp of drovers , as the Telegraph always did , the news of the night . Marconi had perfected radio - telegraphy , " That ...
Page 178
An old man , Billy Macleod , in the schooner Lucy and Adelaide , came across from Normanton with stores and grog , sat down on the river bank with a double - barrelled gun to guard them from the blacks , and Borroloola was on the map .
An old man , Billy Macleod , in the schooner Lucy and Adelaide , came across from Normanton with stores and grog , sat down on the river bank with a double - barrelled gun to guard them from the blacks , and Borroloola was on the map .
Page 198
With one of these a true bushman , Billy Miller Linklater , author of The Magic Snake , was riding one day in the eighties , out north of the Roper . They heard a faint chipping , and saw a very young mother , with a baby , chopping out ...
With one of these a true bushman , Billy Miller Linklater , author of The Magic Snake , was riding one day in the eighties , out north of the Roper . They heard a faint chipping , and saw a very young mother , with a baby , chopping out ...
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Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Territory |
| Author | Ernestine Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson, 1955 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 27 Aug 2021 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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