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Page 88
When the little grey pony , everybody's pet , was swept away in a creek , the party lost a week's meals with relief . Meticulous little ticks in McKinlay's diary tell the doleful story : " Jenkins ... Bob ... Wall - eye ... Ranger .
When the little grey pony , everybody's pet , was swept away in a creek , the party lost a week's meals with relief . Meticulous little ticks in McKinlay's diary tell the doleful story : " Jenkins ... Bob ... Wall - eye ... Ranger .
Page 112
South of Katherine in a dreadful " dry ” they were urgently digging wells , sixty feet to solid granite , most of the labour lost . Drays carried more water than gear south from Katherine River . Bullocks and horses died in droves .
South of Katherine in a dreadful " dry ” they were urgently digging wells , sixty feet to solid granite , most of the labour lost . Drays carried more water than gear south from Katherine River . Bullocks and horses died in droves .
Page 296
Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by droughtfour hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the Barklys with eight drinks in five hundred ...
Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by droughtfour hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the Barklys with eight drinks in five hundred ...
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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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