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id: 58098
author: Pitts, Herbert
title: Children of Wild Australia
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  [Illustration: HUNTING PARROTS AND COCKATOOS] For hundreds and hundreds of years the aborigines had this vast country to themselves, for though Spaniards, like Torres and De Quiros, and Dutchmen, like Tasman and Dirk Hartog, had visited their shores, and an Englishman named William Dampier had even landed in the North West in 1688, it was not till exactly a hundred years afterwards that white men first came to make their homes in their land. Sometimes, of course, when the weather is very hot and close and sultry they do not work as well as at other times, but what white man or child would not prefer to rest under such circumstances?


id: 21383
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: Adventures in Australia
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  I should like to go and see it, I exclaimed; can we do so without risk of being discovered? Taking Toby to guide us, while Bracewell remained in camp, we set out. Thankful you've come, gentlemen, he exclaimed; though Mr Bracewell's round the corner, he'll be glad of your society.


id: 56699
author: Bruce, Mary Grant
title: The Stone Axe of Burkamukk
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  He was a little man, but he had the quick movements of many little men, and at all times he could move rapidly through the Bush, scarcely making a sound as he went. You are so beautiful, he would say, that you should be far away in my wonderful country, where you would see many great men and lovely women; but none more lovely than Mitjen.


id: 23374
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range
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  At the cheer three ladies came out of the companionway, followed by a short, grey, fierce-looking man, who walked eagerly to the group of boys. Now, boys, saddle up, cried the captain.


