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Page 69
... nomads of the red crags and misty billabongs in that stormy sea of ranges , ran with the terrible tidings of the devil - riders , man and beast as one , centaurs of another world , crossing the rubicon from time into the dreaming .
... nomads of the red crags and misty billabongs in that stormy sea of ranges , ran with the terrible tidings of the devil - riders , man and beast as one , centaurs of another world , crossing the rubicon from time into the dreaming .
Page 193
When the cattle and gold mobs were passing by , Calvert River crossing was like Pitt Street at peak hour , but when there was no one for months at a time , Mackie went about , revolver on hip , drinking his ancestral whisky to keep up ...
When the cattle and gold mobs were passing by , Calvert River crossing was like Pitt Street at peak hour , but when there was no one for months at a time , Mackie went about , revolver on hip , drinking his ancestral whisky to keep up ...
Page 270
Five months on the crossing , they did not wait long to dolly out gold , but all five got home alive . The various commissions spent the pleasant months of the year in travel and research , and foretold a glamorous future for the ...
Five months on the crossing , they did not wait long to dolly out gold , but all five got home alive . The various commissions spent the pleasant months of the year in travel and research , and foretold a glamorous future for the ...
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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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