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HIS is the fabled land of old Spanish maps , Terra psittacorum , Land of Parrots , its fan - palm jungles and forest creeks a wheel of colour and light , pools of stippled silver where piccaninnies go swimming and little Johnson ...
HIS is the fabled land of old Spanish maps , Terra psittacorum , Land of Parrots , its fan - palm jungles and forest creeks a wheel of colour and light , pools of stippled silver where piccaninnies go swimming and little Johnson ...
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Floor of creation cracked to billions of sharp little stones pale green and sulphur yellow of grass in slanted morning light , at noon an irritated scarlet , gentle mauve at twilight ... valley after valley , rise after rise , colours ...
Floor of creation cracked to billions of sharp little stones pale green and sulphur yellow of grass in slanted morning light , at noon an irritated scarlet , gentle mauve at twilight ... valley after valley , rise after rise , colours ...
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He asked for a light for his pipe — all the fires in Darwin were out and all its matches mildew . He begged to inform the Minister that in the wet season the Territory was wholly dependent on passing steamers for a light .
He asked for a light for his pipe — all the fires in Darwin were out and all its matches mildew . He begged to inform the Minister that in the wet season the Territory was wholly dependent on passing steamers for a light .
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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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