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Page 139
... wave foamed through and swamped them , sweeping the decks with panic . Men clung to the shrouds , women to their children . Little Monsieur Durand darted about making shrill outcry that somebody had stolen his Gladstone bag with £ 3000 ...
... wave foamed through and swamped them , sweeping the decks with panic . Men clung to the shrouds , women to their children . Little Monsieur Durand darted about making shrill outcry that somebody had stolen his Gladstone bag with £ 3000 ...
Page 168
... Wave Hill , for back in the dim twi- light of fable Bluey Buchanan had formed Wave Hill , had named that curi- ously striated hill cresting Victoria River like a wave breaking from infinities of earth and sun . He had likewise forgotten ...
... Wave Hill , for back in the dim twi- light of fable Bluey Buchanan had formed Wave Hill , had named that curi- ously striated hill cresting Victoria River like a wave breaking from infinities of earth and sun . He had likewise forgotten ...
Page 299
... Wave Hill on the long ride to the west , the first hundred and forty miles is Murran - ji Track , the northern rim of noth- ing , most notorious dry stage of Australia in the number of its deaths by thirst and fever . There were three ...
... Wave Hill on the long ride to the west , the first hundred and forty miles is Murran - ji Track , the northern rim of noth- ing , most notorious dry stage of Australia in the number of its deaths by thirst and fever . There were three ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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