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... living . Its gold - mines and its gardens all are graveyards . Until twenty years ago it was so far away from the ... living with the blacks , derelicts , do - nothings , scallawags running away from the law . This is not true . Too ...
... living . Its gold - mines and its gardens all are graveyards . Until twenty years ago it was so far away from the ... living with the blacks , derelicts , do - nothings , scallawags running away from the law . This is not true . Too ...
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... living , and now and again struck it rich for a bender with a little find , a secret . They lived like wallabies in " them thar hills " , and the cattle - men had the laugh on them that there were dingbats in Kimber- ley's caves of gold ...
... living , and now and again struck it rich for a bender with a little find , a secret . They lived like wallabies in " them thar hills " , and the cattle - men had the laugh on them that there were dingbats in Kimber- ley's caves of gold ...
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... living out in the hills on wallaby and crow came in once a year to the nearest station for a bit of " nourishing food " -bread and salt beef . They needed but little here below , and if they could dodge spears and nulla- nullas it was ...
... living out in the hills on wallaby and crow came in once a year to the nearest station for a bit of " nourishing food " -bread and salt beef . They needed but little here below , and if they could dodge spears and nulla- nullas it was ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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