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The Government was putting through a telegraph to Hall's Creek , but as soon as they got it up , the wild blacks took it downthey built that line four times . A surveyors ' camp up in the ranges was planning a new road , and even a ...
The Government was putting through a telegraph to Hall's Creek , but as soon as they got it up , the wild blacks took it downthey built that line four times . A surveyors ' camp up in the ranges was planning a new road , and even a ...
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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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A graded road is that winding pad where once in five years a packhorse pilgrim carried his life in his water - bag , and lay unburied if the Murran - ji was dry . Nathaniel Buchanan , when he formed Wave Hill in 1883 , pioneered this ...
A graded road is that winding pad where once in five years a packhorse pilgrim carried his life in his water - bag , and lay unburied if the Murran - ji was dry . Nathaniel Buchanan , when he formed Wave Hill in 1883 , pioneered this ...
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