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Page 38
... of devil possession that is terror to the camp for days and nights - in homicidal mania he threatens his friends and relations with axe and spear . It seldom goes as far as a killing , and is obviously Malay heredity running amuck .
... of devil possession that is terror to the camp for days and nights - in homicidal mania he threatens his friends and relations with axe and spear . It seldom goes as far as a killing , and is obviously Malay heredity running amuck .
Page 88
... it was cannibal to eat these melancholy friends , the only friends in a sodden green prison . When the little grey pony , everybody's pet , was swept away in a creek , the party lost a week's meals with relief .
... it was cannibal to eat these melancholy friends , the only friends in a sodden green prison . When the little grey pony , everybody's pet , was swept away in a creek , the party lost a week's meals with relief .
Page 317
He made a lot of friends at the Katherine pub , and started on the thousand miles back . Even as the elephant , which should have been part of its fauna , the Territory never forgets . When that cheerful moon - face draped its elaborate ...
He made a lot of friends at the Katherine pub , and started on the thousand miles back . Even as the elephant , which should have been part of its fauna , the Territory never forgets . When that cheerful moon - face draped its elaborate ...
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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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