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A couple of proas anchored off , canoes paddled in with up to a hundred and thirty men to recruit local labour - boys , old men , lubras and children out on the mud - Aats " dry - fishing ” for trepang in low tides by day , or diving ...
A couple of proas anchored off , canoes paddled in with up to a hundred and thirty men to recruit local labour - boys , old men , lubras and children out on the mud - Aats " dry - fishing ” for trepang in low tides by day , or diving ...
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Thirty miles inland , on beautiful springs near Rum Jungle , Poett and Mackinnon made a dazzling success in a few months of Arabian and Liberian coffee , three hundred thousand plants in five hundred acres , with maize , nurseries of ...
Thirty miles inland , on beautiful springs near Rum Jungle , Poett and Mackinnon made a dazzling success in a few months of Arabian and Liberian coffee , three hundred thousand plants in five hundred acres , with maize , nurseries of ...
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forty - five men and one woman ; Italians , thirty men ; British , eleven men , three women , nine girls . How green was their valley ! Yet they made good settlers , and a few are in the Territory still . The five hospitals promised by ...
forty - five men and one woman ; Italians , thirty men ; British , eleven men , three women , nine girls . How green was their valley ! Yet they made good settlers , and a few are in the Territory still . The five hospitals promised by ...
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LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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