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Page 67
... carrying spinifex nets and fish . Grid of stones was silver - veiled with salt - bush , a lush green feed for the ... carried him joyously on five hundred miles to Peake Creek and a new river , the Neale , steep banks and flood drift ...
... carrying spinifex nets and fish . Grid of stones was silver - veiled with salt - bush , a lush green feed for the ... carried him joyously on five hundred miles to Peake Creek and a new river , the Neale , steep banks and flood drift ...
Page 112
... carried a life - and - death telegram to Todd , carried it in an open boat across the Gulf of Carpentaria to Normanton then , riding , to the nearest telegraph station at Gilbert River in Queensland . For Queens- land , with the end in ...
... carried a life - and - death telegram to Todd , carried it in an open boat across the Gulf of Carpentaria to Normanton then , riding , to the nearest telegraph station at Gilbert River in Queensland . For Queens- land , with the end in ...
Page 263
... carried by packhorse courier from Wyndham or Katherine at a delivery cost of £ 25 , and well worth it , an eight - hundred - mile round trip , three weeks ' hard riding with luck , a night- watch for bad blacks and carry your own water ...
... carried by packhorse courier from Wyndham or Katherine at a delivery cost of £ 25 , and well worth it , an eight - hundred - mile round trip , three weeks ' hard riding with luck , a night- watch for bad blacks and carry your own water ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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