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THE FIRST WARATAH (Australian Legends) by C. W. Peck 0

THE FIRST WARATAH (Australian Legends) by C. W. Peck

Why did the early arrivals in Australia imagine that the aborigines had no folk-lore, no legends, hardly any manners, habits and customs? Is it that they really had none, or that the blacks were...

PRELUDE. A PRINCESS (Australian Legends) by C. W. Peck 0

PRELUDE. A PRINCESS (Australian Legends) by C. W. Peck

In a little settlement for aborigines not far from Sydney lives the last full-blooded person of the once-powerful Cammary Tribe. She lives in the past. The present has no lure for her, and very...

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THE FIRST KANGAROO (Australian Legends) by C. W. Peck

According to the inhabitants of the South-Eastern parts of the country-around the Monaro District, Mount Kosciusko, Goulburn, the Currockbilly Ranges, Mittagong, Burragorang and as far north as the Nepean River, there was a time...