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Page 38
... friends and relations with axe and spear . It seldom goes as far as a killing , and is obviously Malay heredity running amuck . Every three or four years Trader Brown sailed in across Van Diemen's Gulf to Darwin with a cargo of trepang ...
... friends and relations with axe and spear . It seldom goes as far as a killing , and is obviously Malay heredity running amuck . Every three or four years Trader Brown sailed in across Van Diemen's Gulf to Darwin with a cargo of trepang ...
Page 88
... 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 . Meticulous little ticks in McKinlay's diary tell the doleful ...
... 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 . Meticulous little ticks in McKinlay's diary tell the doleful ...
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... friends of all his foes , and he was a magnificent bushman . " He could ride like a centaur and track the Holy Ghost through a thun- dercloud , " as his friend , Billie Miller , expressed it . He might have been twenty - five or so when ...
... friends of all his foes , and he was a magnificent bushman . " He could ride like a centaur and track the Holy Ghost through a thun- dercloud , " as his friend , Billie Miller , expressed it . He might have been twenty - five or so when ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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