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Page 63
Sturt , in his Central Australian expedition , against his better judgment , gave it a wide berth , rode north - west from his own living river , the Murray , to be lost in the maze of the dunes , prisoned in walls of sand .
Sturt , in his Central Australian expedition , against his better judgment , gave it a wide berth , rode north - west from his own living river , the Murray , to be lost in the maze of the dunes , prisoned in walls of sand .
Page 65
They dug feet deep in every creek of sand - here a brackish pool , there a soak , to keep the horses limping for three hundred miles , the dip of the land still to the old sea . Beyond Mount Deception their blackfellow was useless ...
They dug feet deep in every creek of sand - here a brackish pool , there a soak , to keep the horses limping for three hundred miles , the dip of the land still to the old sea . Beyond Mount Deception their blackfellow was useless ...
Page 67
The Dead Heart was a living world , creeks of last year's burning sand a long chain of shady waterholes with many fires and human tracks . They met blacks carrying spinifex nets and fish . Grid of stones was silver - veiled with salt ...
The Dead Heart was a living world , creeks of last year's burning sand a long chain of shady waterholes with many fires and human tracks . They met blacks carrying spinifex nets and fish . Grid of stones was silver - veiled with salt ...
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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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