Australasia and the Oceanic Region: With Some Notice of New Guinea : from Adelaide - Via Torres Straits - to Port Darwin Thence Round West AustraliaGeorge Robertson, 1876 - 426 pàgines P.114-120; Location of Larrakeya, Woolnah, Waaggites, Aguagwillas, Gwoolingahs, Woolwongahs; brief description of appearance and disposition, weapons, children, child betrothals; diseases, bodily mutilations, initiation rites, burial customs and cannibalism; comparison with Murray & Coorong tribes; fire, food & clothing; relationship with settlers. |
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Pàgina 218 - At the dead hour of night, in the wildest and most inhospitable wastes of Australia, with the fierce wind raging in unison with the scene of violence before me, I was left, with a single native, whose fidelity I could not rely upon, and who for aught I knew might be in league with the other two, who perhaps were even now, lurking about with the view of taking away my life as they had done that of the overseer.
Pàgina 250 - I found the party halted, and immediately went across to the blacks' wurleys, where I found King sitting in a hut which the natives had made for him. He presented a melancholy appearance — wasted to a shadow, and hardly to be distinguished as a civilised being but by the remnants of clothes upon him. He seemed exceedingly weak, and I found it occasionally difficult to follow what he said. The natives were all gathered round, seated on the ground, looking with a most gratified and delighted expression.
Pàgina 337 - The Spring months are September, October, and November ; the Summer, December, January, and February ; Autumn, March, April, and May: Winter, June, July, and August.
Pàgina 415 - A station-house at one of the ends of a railway viaduct in the Department of the Var was so pestilential that the officials could not be kept there longer than a year. Forty of these trees were planted, and it is now as healthy as any other place on the line.
Pàgina 147 - In the latter, none of these occur, but the prehensile-tailed cuscus is almost the only terrestrial mammal seen, except wild pigs, which are found in all the islands, and deer (which have probably been recently introduced) in the Celebes and the Moluccas.
Pàgina 149 - Spirito Santo, are found at the extremity of a line of smaller islands. These analogies might have facilitated the progress of discovery, and especially contributed to make each archipelago more easily recognised. By carefully marking the direction of a chain, navigators might have become almost certain of discovering new islands ; and even still, they ought to attend to a principle which may put them on their guard against immense reefs which, in all probability, follow the direction of chains at...
Pàgina 384 - Australia : — West Australia South Australia Victoria New South Wales .... Queensland Tasmania New Zealand...
Pàgina 394 - Carver to the river now known as the Columbia and afterward somewhat vaguely to the vast country drained by it. The present Oregon. State of Oregon is about 375 miles from east to west and 200 miles from north to south and comprises an area of 96,699 square miles. Its population in 1910 was 672,765. Oregon, like Washington, extends across the mountain belt and includes much of the interior plateau. It has thus a wide range of climate, that of the coast being mild, equable, and humid, and that of...
Pàgina 293 - After they have drunk together some time, he takes leave of them ; and the order of the court is then read to him once more. Among the great, this reading takes place in...
Pàgina 102 - It is New Holland," says an accurate and acute observer, " where it is summer with us when it is winter in Europe, and vice versa ; where the barometer rises before bad weather, and falls before good; where the north is the hot wind, and the south the cold ; where the humblest house is fitted up with cedar...