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Page 91
... months ' horse , and the pipes of tobacco for which they had prayed , put captain and crew on the sick list for a week . Six months before , they had all been given up for dead . That was virtually the end of McKinlay's explorations ...
... months ' horse , and the pipes of tobacco for which they had prayed , put captain and crew on the sick list for a week . Six months before , they had all been given up for dead . That was virtually the end of McKinlay's explorations ...
Page 169
... months of blazing summer . On one 120 - mile dry stage the men drove eight thousand wethers for nine days and nights without a drink , not a blade of green feed , only the paltry shade of the mulga in infinities of sun , the thermometer ...
... months of blazing summer . On one 120 - mile dry stage the men drove eight thousand wethers for nine days and nights without a drink , not a blade of green feed , only the paltry shade of the mulga in infinities of sun , the thermometer ...
Page 296
... months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the Barklys with eight drinks in five hundred miles , he hadn't lost a living hoof when he hit the Georgina road . That was the spirit of the old Australia ...
... months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the Barklys with eight drinks in five hundred miles , he hadn't lost a living hoof when he hit the Georgina road . That was the spirit of the old Australia ...
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Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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