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Page 172
Following a disastrous drought in the south , the early eighties saw a grand migration of cattle across a continent unrivalled in the world's history , a classic of flocks and herds right out of the Old Testament , but on a mightier and ...
Following a disastrous drought in the south , the early eighties saw a grand migration of cattle across a continent unrivalled in the world's history , a classic of flocks and herds right out of the Old Testament , but on a mightier and ...
Page 233
There was no mail , and telegrams , contracting for thousands of cattle to be delivered by a certain date , were left at Katherine or Wyndham till somebody was going that way - a two - hundred - and - forty - mile track through bad ...
There was no mail , and telegrams , contracting for thousands of cattle to be delivered by a certain date , were left at Katherine or Wyndham till somebody was going that way - a two - hundred - and - forty - mile track through bad ...
Page 298
The cattle had to travel in small mobs , two or three days between them , waiting for the water to make . For twenty years the blacks and sandstorms were left to their own sweet will . In 1930 , when Wiluna was opened up as a gold ...
The cattle had to travel in small mobs , two or three days between them , waiting for the water to make . For twenty years the blacks and sandstorms were left to their own sweet will . In 1930 , when Wiluna was opened up as a gold ...
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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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