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Page 71
I have marked a tree and planted the British Aag . There is a high hill about two and a half miles to the north - west . I wish it had been in the centre , but on it tomorrow shall raise a cone of stones and plant the flag , naming it ...
I have marked a tree and planted the British Aag . There is a high hill about two and a half miles to the north - west . I wish it had been in the centre , but on it tomorrow shall raise a cone of stones and plant the flag , naming it ...
Page 77
He blazed a tree where he heard that sound . Now on the crest of the dune , aloof , an equestrian statue of himself on Polly , he was at journey's end , “ greatly delighted to behold the water of the Indian Ocean in Van Diemen's Gulf ...
He blazed a tree where he heard that sound . Now on the crest of the dune , aloof , an equestrian statue of himself on Polly , he was at journey's end , “ greatly delighted to behold the water of the Indian Ocean in Van Diemen's Gulf ...
Page 219
In the wet he set the natives spinning wild kapok , and sold it in Darwin for 8d . a pound to stuff beds and pillows . This wild - kapok tree grows all over the north , to about sixty feet high , with waxy yellow ...
In the wet he set the natives spinning wild kapok , and sold it in Darwin for 8d . a pound to stuff beds and pillows . This wild - kapok tree grows all over the north , to about sixty feet high , with waxy yellow ...
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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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