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Page 122
... gold . ... and there it was , in the shattered quartz , a lightning streak of the fickle gold to a leader of a thousand ounces ! Red - hot along the telegraph wire they sent the news away . A second party rode past them , Adam Johns and ...
... gold . ... and there it was , in the shattered quartz , a lightning streak of the fickle gold to a leader of a thousand ounces ! Red - hot along the telegraph wire they sent the news away . A second party rode past them , Adam Johns and ...
Page 183
... gold - rush by Jock McPhee's track . It shortened the distance from the Kimberley coasts to a mere three hundred miles — if they came through alive . At the end of 1885 there were two thousand miners around Hall's Creek living in bough ...
... gold - rush by Jock McPhee's track . It shortened the distance from the Kimberley coasts to a mere three hundred miles — if they came through alive . At the end of 1885 there were two thousand miners around Hall's Creek living in bough ...
Page 218
... gold . According to Bottomley there was enough gold in Howley mine alone to pay Britain's national debt- £ 4,000,000 in sight in the surface workings , untold millions underneath . Retired colonels in Surrey and doctors ' widows in ...
... gold . According to Bottomley there was enough gold in Howley mine alone to pay Britain's national debt- £ 4,000,000 in sight in the surface workings , untold millions underneath . Retired colonels in Surrey and doctors ' widows in ...
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Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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