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- First Page
- Title Page
- Copyright and Imprint Information
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Plates
- Maps
- Tables
- Chronology
- Out of Cooktown
- 1. A Meeting: north Queensland miners and Sudest Islanders
- The Islands
- 2. Sudest: from protection to competition then isolation
- 3. Misima: warlike and civilised
- 4. Woodlark: a people free to walk about
- Opening the Mainland
- 5. The Laloki: a beautiful country but a failure
- 6. The South-east: a few fine colours and malaria
- The Northern Rivers
- 7. The Mambare: natives of the fighting variety
- 8. New Ground: all golden country but very poor
- 9. The Yodda, Gira and Waria: unavoidable mishaps which constantly recur in warfare
- Sideshows
- 10. Milne Bay: nothing very exceptional
- 11. Keveri: a magnificent valley and an intense interest in killing
- The Lakekamu
- 12. Two Ounces a Day and Dysentery: it grieves a man to lose one of them especially if he is a good boy
- 13. No Meeting: a salute of skewers
- Edie Creek
- 14. On Gold: a quiet whisper … up on the Bulolo old Shark-eye’s getting gold
- Bibliography
