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Page 187
... road , where M. P. Durack the year before had wondered at a white man's boot track , was a chain of shanties - piles of bottles under the bottle - trees - and a high - road of teamsters and packers goading their heavily laden mules ...
... road , where M. P. Durack the year before had wondered at a white man's boot track , was a chain of shanties - piles of bottles under the bottle - trees - and a high - road of teamsters and packers goading their heavily laden mules ...
Page 296
... Road , to be driven back by drought . Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by drought- four hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the ...
... Road , to be driven back by drought . Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by drought- four hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the ...
Page 299
... road , and travelling west the road - trains with ninety tons of stores for the border stations . There are well - equipped Government bores and tanks in every twenty miles , and through the worst of the nightmare scrub they have ...
... road , and travelling west the road - trains with ninety tons of stores for the border stations . There are well - equipped Government bores and tanks in every twenty miles , and through the worst of the nightmare scrub they have ...
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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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