| Description |
288 pages : illustrations, maps (on lining papers), portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Four false starts "Fort Dundas, Raffles Bay, Port Essington, Escape Cliffs" -- Goyder's Hundred -- Early Palmerston -- Solid gold and salted gold -- Little Canton -- By telegraph and tempest -- Of human bondage -- The pearling masters -- Hard road to Tipperary -- Darwin the damned -- Impolite politics -- Reptile contemporaries -- The stormy years -- The Royal Commission -- Rendering unto Caesar -- The front door -- Red Square -- Distinction in disaster -- The past as prologue |
| Summary |
Historical record; early contact at settlements at Melville Is., Raffles Bay, Pt. Essington, Escape Cliffs, gives McKinlays description of latter; Early life at Palmerston; Chap. 7; Treatment of natives, clashes with Larrakias; murder of miners at Daly R. (1884); other murders in N.T. attitudes towards Aborigines, effect of contact, treatment of women; White law as it affected the Aborigines; Appendix 6; List of Govt. Residents & Administrators |
| Notes |
pls |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
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Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Darwin -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Darwin (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80158845
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Darwin (N.T.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00009519
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Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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| Author |
Tylee Memorial Collection
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| LC no. |
68008093 |
| ISBN |
0727020250 |
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