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Only one man in Australia has first - hand knowledge of the Vikings from Macassar in their rococo corner of our past — Tuan Brown of Oojoung - tambanounou , out on the north coast from 1879 to 1942 , “ Mr Northern Territory Brown ” ...
Only one man in Australia has first - hand knowledge of the Vikings from Macassar in their rococo corner of our past — Tuan Brown of Oojoung - tambanounou , out on the north coast from 1879 to 1942 , “ Mr Northern Territory Brown ” ...
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Scores of farm - hands came from south by steamer , fares paid , high wages . ... A signpost on the Stuart Highway with a pointing hand , a deserted little railway shack in the long grasses — not even a notice to WHISTLE — is Batchelor ...
Scores of farm - hands came from south by steamer , fares paid , high wages . ... A signpost on the Stuart Highway with a pointing hand , a deserted little railway shack in the long grasses — not even a notice to WHISTLE — is Batchelor ...
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Wagers up to £ 400 would be won and lost on a wizard with the stockwhip in the old Katherine pub — he would crack it while tossing from hand to hand , curl it round his neck like a python and cut a cigarette in half from a comrade's ...
Wagers up to £ 400 would be won and lost on a wizard with the stockwhip in the old Katherine pub — he would crack it while tossing from hand to hand , curl it round his neck like a python and cut a cigarette in half from a comrade's ...
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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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