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Page 111
... telegraph station was built , the Warramunga of Tennant's Creek came in three hundred together , men with their arms above their heads to show they carried no spears , women and children before them , and all holding green branches of ...
... telegraph station was built , the Warramunga of Tennant's Creek came in three hundred together , men with their arms above their heads to show they carried no spears , women and children before them , and all holding green branches of ...
Page 117
... Telegraph Number Two , to circle the Great Australian Bight for sixteen hundred miles to West Australia . Of the type of the late Dr J. J. C. Bradfield , designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge , who offered his engineering genius to his ...
... Telegraph Number Two , to circle the Great Australian Bight for sixteen hundred miles to West Australia . Of the type of the late Dr J. J. C. Bradfield , designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge , who offered his engineering genius to his ...
Page 118
... Telegraph history . That was a fidelity surpassing love of women . The first telegraphists of those incredibly lonely outposts , at 8s . a day and rations , gave their lives to the Line . Most of them died there , forgotten men , but ...
... Telegraph history . That was a fidelity surpassing love of women . The first telegraphists of those incredibly lonely outposts , at 8s . a day and rations , gave their lives to the Line . Most of them died there , forgotten men , but ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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