On the Wallaby: Or, Through the East and Across AustraliaP.185-186; Short account of the help of Aborigines in shipwreck Peruvian; p.266; Black tracker in Bimerah district; p.285-286; Welford district said to be haunted because of savage fights; p.297; Corroboree in Comongin district. |
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| Title | On the Wallaby: Or, Through the East and Across Australia |
| Author | Guy Boothby |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1894 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Oct 13, 2007 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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