They That Sit in Darkness

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Excerpt from They That Sit in Darkness: A Story of the Australian Never-Never As it is a far cry from the Great Lone Land Of North America to the lonelier never-never of tropical Aus tralia, perhaps it may be as well to say something ex planatory. In my wayward youth, when necessity and an irrepressible love of adventure made me a wanderer in strange places, I figured, in a humble way, as a pioneer of civilisation in the wild country it has been my endeavour to describe in these pages. I was the first white man to build a house and settle on the Van Alphen river in the far Northern Territory, and it was there I supported life, for weeks together, on crows, hawks, snakes and currajong roots. That was before I became, among other things, a gold-digger in Queens land, and a Mounted Policeman on the frontier in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.