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dozen horses — two riding , two spare , and three months ' tucker on two packs -the " expedition ” financed by two old friends , William Finke and James Chambers . From Oratunga Station , through the fiery peaks and white - gum creeks ...
dozen horses — two riding , two spare , and three months ' tucker on two packs -the " expedition ” financed by two old friends , William Finke and James Chambers . From Oratunga Station , through the fiery peaks and white - gum creeks ...
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Six hundred and fifty miles of spinifex hills and downs , forty miles to every pool and never a blackfellow in sight , they were in new country at last ... vast vacant prairies veiled in yellow grass , the horses falling in rotten ...
Six hundred and fifty miles of spinifex hills and downs , forty miles to every pool and never a blackfellow in sight , they were in new country at last ... vast vacant prairies veiled in yellow grass , the horses falling in rotten ...
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Joe Cooper had two horses ripped up , and one shot dead under him when his rifle exploded against a tree . fowl and game “ The funniest sight I ever saw was a myall blackfellow up a tree , with a horse on a halter below and a bull ...
Joe Cooper had two horses ripped up , and one shot dead under him when his rifle exploded against a tree . fowl and game “ The funniest sight I ever saw was a myall blackfellow up a tree , with a horse on a halter below and a bull ...
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