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No ship had called in eight months , it had precious little dinner , and what was H.M.S. Pioneer ? Until she arrived in port she was hidden by a belt of mangroves — the blacks rush up to tell of a mob of wild blackfellows coming in from ...
No ship had called in eight months , it had precious little dinner , and what was H.M.S. Pioneer ? Until she arrived in port she was hidden by a belt of mangroves — the blacks rush up to tell of a mob of wild blackfellows coming in from ...
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Three more months to Katherine , there seventeen of the men went down with fever , to be carried in wagons to Darwin , two hundred and twenty miles . The rest of the sheep were shorn , and the wool went down at freight of £ 46 a ton ...
Three more months to Katherine , there seventeen of the men went down with fever , to be carried in wagons to Darwin , two hundred and twenty miles . The rest of the sheep were shorn , and the wool went down at freight of £ 46 a ton ...
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Four months from Wave Hill to Katherine , he then tried the Coast Road , to be driven back by drought . Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by droughtfour hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost .
Four months from Wave Hill to Katherine , he then tried the Coast Road , to be driven back by drought . Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by droughtfour hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost .
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LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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