Across Papua

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Colonel Kenneth Mackay. Across Papua

Across Papua

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Sydney To Port Moresby

Chapter 2 Port Moresby—Past And Present

Chapter 3 Port Moresby To Kerepuna—Rubber Planting And Christianity

Chapter 4 Samarai And Woodlark—A Beauty Spot And A Mine

Chapter 5 An Island Sea

Chapter 6 Cape Nelson To Tamata—A Brave Man And A Wonderful March

Chapter 7 From Sea To Sea—Buna Bay To The Divide

Chapter 8 The Yodda Fields And Kokoda

Chapter 9 Across The Main Range

Chapter 10 The Last Stage Of Our March

Chapter 11 Reflections And Coffee

Chapter 12 Possibilities Of The West

Chapter 13 A Last Word

Appendix Land In Papua

THE END

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Colonel Kenneth Mackay

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Legislative Council, Sydney July 26th, 1909

As we ran alongside, our captain, dropping his role of steersman, dashed from the bridge, and in his capacity of deck-hand, threw over a fender, then, as boy, caught a rope, while as bo’sun he exchanged curses with a nautical person on the other vessel. Meanwhile our boat drifted under a for’ard scupper pipe, and as a passenger may neither touch the wheel, nor shout an order down into the engine room, I had to watch helplessly the humiliating spectacle of my luggage being drenched with German bilge water. On the whole, I think, individualism can be carried too far.

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