They That Sit in Darkness: A Story of the Australian Never-Never

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.