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Page 219
... wild apples for pies . He cultivated the fruits of the old garden and with black miners worked a silver lode thirty - six feet deep . In the wet he set the natives spinning wild kapok , and sold it in Darwin for 8d . a pound to stuff ...
... wild apples for pies . He cultivated the fruits of the old garden and with black miners worked a silver lode thirty - six feet deep . In the wet he set the natives spinning wild kapok , and sold it in Darwin for 8d . a pound to stuff ...
Page 397
... wild blacks , his only call on civilization for nails and fencing wire . He had roamed the north for thirty years , had been everywhere but Darwin , and was never known to wear a shirt . A Nordic giant tanned in the sun , clean - shaven ...
... wild blacks , his only call on civilization for nails and fencing wire . He had roamed the north for thirty years , had been everywhere but Darwin , and was never known to wear a shirt . A Nordic giant tanned in the sun , clean - shaven ...
Page 438
... wild west all about you , wild westers are superfluous , and where murder stalks the greenwood murder stories fall flat . You must have some- thing to bite on , three hundred years old for preference , in a good solid small- print tome ...
... wild west all about you , wild westers are superfluous , and where murder stalks the greenwood murder stories fall flat . You must have some- thing to bite on , three hundred years old for preference , in a good solid small- print tome ...
Contents
Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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