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Only the fringe of the Timor is tropical for two hundred miles deep , with rainfall to a possible ninety inches ... and then intensified , by sudden cyclonic storms , when five inches of rain may fall with sun or moon still shining .
Only the fringe of the Timor is tropical for two hundred miles deep , with rainfall to a possible ninety inches ... and then intensified , by sudden cyclonic storms , when five inches of rain may fall with sun or moon still shining .
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Four months to the Georgina River , on Parrapitcherie Waterhole , they camped for another three months waiting for rain . Here two men died . The Burke and Georgina rivers were an inland sea when the rains came , and from there men and ...
Four months to the Georgina River , on Parrapitcherie Waterhole , they camped for another three months waiting for rain . Here two men died . The Burke and Georgina rivers were an inland sea when the rains came , and from there men and ...
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In that country where they are always looking for rain , a cloud is ngapamurrila , water - shade , and so shy that the slightest sound frightens it away . In drought summer the big woolly flocks of monsoon come rolling down from the ...
In that country where they are always looking for rain , a cloud is ngapamurrila , water - shade , and so shy that the slightest sound frightens it away . In drought summer the big woolly flocks of monsoon come rolling down from the ...
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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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