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Till 1869 , all English news was three months old , carried by the little P. and O. mail steamers ploughing round the Cape of Good Hope and six thousand miles across the Indian Ocean , looking for the trimmed lamps of a dim antipodean ...
Till 1869 , all English news was three months old , carried by the little P. and O. mail steamers ploughing round the Cape of Good Hope and six thousand miles across the Indian Ocean , looking for the trimmed lamps of a dim antipodean ...
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Their tucker - bags filled at Springvale , in the moonlight , lasted two hundred and fifty miles to Victoria River Downs , where they camped on the creek ... Tom Nugent rode back a thousand miles to be O.T. linesman at Tennant's Creek .
Their tucker - bags filled at Springvale , in the moonlight , lasted two hundred and fifty miles to Victoria River Downs , where they camped on the creek ... Tom Nugent rode back a thousand miles to be O.T. linesman at Tennant's Creek .
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Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by droughtfour hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the Barklys with eight drinks in five hundred ...
Taking the cattle south to Powell's Creek he was again turned back by droughtfour hundred miles and three months ' travelling lost . Over the ninety - mile dry to Eva Downs , and across the Barklys with eight drinks in five hundred ...
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Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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