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giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip

YEAR
1924
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giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip

heard before. But he persevered; and, bringing a couple of men from the township fifty miles away, set them to work. Dead Finish was situated at the extreme head of one of those short Australian coastal rivers whose existence begins in boggy swamps and ends in a big sand-bar. The country was mounta…

Record ID
2,405
Year
1,924
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2405
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Steve Brown's Bunyip, and Other Stories; L. C. Barry
Published
1924
Narrative type
Giant and Ogre Narratives
Public-text label
giant
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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heard before. But he persevered; and, bringing a couple of men from the township fifty miles away, set them to work. Dead Finish was situated at the extreme head of one of those short Australian coastal rivers whose existence begins in boggy swamps and ends in a big sand-bar. The country was mountainous and scrubby, abounding in ‘falls,’ springs, morasses, giant timber, dingoes, ticks, leeches, and creeks. The wonder was, not that anybody should ever have settled on it, but that, once there, they should ever manage to get out of it, as they did once in six months. But for these few families on Dead Finish Creek, the district was.

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