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Page 293
He used to be paid £ i a head for delivery at the railhead , £ 1250 for the usual mob of twelve hundred and fifty , but now agreements vary . He provides the " plant " of from four to eight ringers , white and black , a cook - always ...
He used to be paid £ i a head for delivery at the railhead , £ 1250 for the usual mob of twelve hundred and fifty , but now agreements vary . He provides the " plant " of from four to eight ringers , white and black , a cook - always ...
Page 404
Camp cook for all , schoolteacher in regular school hours , she was painting arresting watercolours of the waterholes on the way , and writing a children's book . Tim O'Shea's six pretty daughters , of Katherine , married troopers and ...
Camp cook for all , schoolteacher in regular school hours , she was painting arresting watercolours of the waterholes on the way , and writing a children's book . Tim O'Shea's six pretty daughters , of Katherine , married troopers and ...
Page 436
The year's best dinner was often a dry johnnie - cake on a dry stage , or a hunk of salt beef an ' rain if you was ridin ' tracks in the wet - no fire to cook a damper or boil the billy . If I was in at the hut , an ' remembered ...
The year's best dinner was often a dry johnnie - cake on a dry stage , or a hunk of salt beef an ' rain if you was ridin ' tracks in the wet - no fire to cook a damper or boil the billy . If I was in at the hut , an ' remembered ...
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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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| 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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