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Page 233
... woman of honourable mention in We of the Never Never , was first white woman to live there . The two women who followed her died . Goldsbrough Mort , in the nineties , sent up two thousand sheep to those infinite pastures . Though they ...
... woman of honourable mention in We of the Never Never , was first white woman to live there . The two women who followed her died . Goldsbrough Mort , in the nineties , sent up two thousand sheep to those infinite pastures . Though they ...
Page 397
... woman with two babies when the men were away shooting buffalo for six weeks , a weird and savage world when the dark ... woman with a lively interest and a wide knowledge of a country known to no other woman . I once heard her giving ...
... woman with two babies when the men were away shooting buffalo for six weeks , a weird and savage world when the dark ... woman with a lively interest and a wide knowledge of a country known to no other woman . I once heard her giving ...
Page 408
... woman at Tanami , a thousand miles down in the desert , in 1909. Her say - so on any goldfield rocked the market in shares . When rich deposits of wolfram were unearthed near Pine Creek , May " married the mine " . She worked it herself ...
... woman at Tanami , a thousand miles down in the desert , in 1909. Her say - so on any goldfield rocked the market in shares . When rich deposits of wolfram were unearthed near Pine Creek , May " married the mine " . She worked it herself ...
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Chapter Page I WINGED VICTORY I | 1 |
LAND OF THE MOONBOW | 17 |
VIKINGS OF THE ARAFURA | 31 |
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