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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