spirits in Tales of the Austral Tropics
up and looked about him. The rope and noose resolved itself into an ordinary halter thrown over the tie-beam, though Sandy could not for the life of him remember having seen it there before. There was certainly low tide in the whisky bottle, but he could not determine whether the bread and beef wer…
- Record ID
- 1,860
- Year
- 1,893
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
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- Record ID
- 1860
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Tales of the Austral Tropics; Ernest Favenc
- Published
- 1893
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- spirits
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Northern Australia: B
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- Source Grounded Section Record
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up and looked about him. The rope and noose resolved itself into an ordinary halter thrown over the tie-beam, though Sandy could not for the life of him remember having seen it there before. There was certainly low tide in the whisky bottle, but he could not determine whether the bread and beef were in the same condition as before the stranger's visit. His spirits fell, however, when he found the unmistakably fresh tracks of a horse outside the verandah. But if his visitor was a ghost, how did he come to ride a horse that made tracks? There could be no error, as he had swept all around the hut since the two men met. This thought.
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