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Page 34
... thirty men to recruit local labour - boys , old men , lubras and children out on the mud - flats " dry - fishing " for trepang in low tides by day , or diving into shallows for the luminous shade of the sea - slug on sun - rippled sand ...
... thirty men to recruit local labour - boys , old men , lubras and children out on the mud - flats " dry - fishing " for trepang in low tides by day , or diving into shallows for the luminous shade of the sea - slug on sun - rippled sand ...
Page 153
... thirty feet , with two noble chimneys , sixty feet high , of ant - hill cement and ironstone . He imported a hundred and twenty tons of machinery - rollers to crush ninety tons of cane a day , vats to hold thirty thousand gallons of ...
... thirty feet , with two noble chimneys , sixty feet high , of ant - hill cement and ironstone . He imported a hundred and twenty tons of machinery - rollers to crush ninety tons of cane a day , vats to hold thirty thousand gallons of ...
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... thirty - five inches in a week , no news in five months from Daly River settlers . Edith , Cullen and Ferguson rivers drowned the railway camps , drowned some of the men , among them " Peter the Viking " , a Nordic giant out in a boat ...
... thirty - five inches in a week , no news in five months from Daly River settlers . Edith , Cullen and Ferguson rivers drowned the railway camps , drowned some of the men , among them " Peter the Viking " , a Nordic giant out in a boat ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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