232 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm
Contents
Darwin, yesterday and today -- East Arm Leprosarium -- Rum Jungle and St. Barbara's of Batchelor -- Port Essington -- Jesuit pioneers -- Bathhurst Island -- Bishop Gsell -- By Lugger to Melville Island -- Down the Daly River-O -- Overland to Port Keats -- Down the track -- North-West passage -- In the outback cattle country -- To the Ord and home again -- Aboriginal Madonna and native art -- A cathedral is built
Summary
Semi-fiction; Missions, cattles stations, settlements Life of half-castes on Croker Island; Full story of Father Confalonieri who met 7 tribes on Coburg Peninsula, prepared maps of the country and a small vocabulary of tribal dialects used; Description of life in leprosarium; Bathurst and Melville Islands tribes split up into 9 sub-tribes (4 on Bathurst and 5 on Melville); Work of Bishop Gsell; Darwin, Daly River, Newcastle Waters, Port Hedland (rock carvings), Katherine; The painting of the Aboriginal Madonna by Karel Kupka and its meaning to natives, work by Punduk, Simon and Mawalan
Analysis
Northern Territory - Description and travel
Notes
Introduction by Keith Willey, who helped in preparing text
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
