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BOWYANGS AND BOOMERANGS

Mulga Mick gives his account of life in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmania. He tells of mining for gold, wolfram, opals and osmiridium. Other themes include swagging, Afghans, camels, mica mines
and life in general from the 1890's in the Australian bush.

by Michael Joseph 'Mulga Mick' O'Reilly ( ISBN: 0 85905 063 7 )

Indexed by Val Ward, September 2000.



 






General Index
Places and Locations
People Mentioned in the Book
Shipping Information
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GENERAL INDEX


   
[ page numbers in yellow are illustrations ] Page No.
Aboriginals 31
Aborigines' Protection Society 86
Acacia 17
Acacia Seed & white ant (aboriginal bread) 16
Australian Inland Mission 68, 71, 114
Australian Natives 31
Award Claim 11
Bank of New South Wales 59
Bank of Western Australia 59
Barcoo Rot 8
Bardies 16
Blackfellows' Mia Mias 15
Bobby Dazzler (88oz nugget) 50
Boer War 33
Boomerangs 16
Booze Palaces 17
Bowyangs 45
'bumboats' 42, 43, 131
Burns Philps 76
Camels 51, 52, 53
Carbine (horse- Melbourne Cup Winner) 3
Carbine (racehorse)  17, 117
Cemetery Rush 26
Coolamon 47, 48
Coolgardie stretchers 39
Crimean War 118
Curry Powder 52
Diggers' Association 12
Dolly pot 37, 40
Dry Blowing (method of dry washing of clothes) 8
Dryblower (description of machine for gold sifting) 9
Dryblowing (a method of sifting for gold) 9
Euros 51
Fingal (mine) 41, 42
Fremantle abattoirs 55
Fremantle-Singapore 55
Gay Girl, The (Brookman Street, Kalgoorlie) 121
Government 3
Inland Mission Hostel at Oodnadatta 116
Italians 42
Jarrow Jingles 31
Kaditcha (Aboriginal Spirit / man) 88, 142, 152
Kangaroos 51
Kurrawang woodline 42
Labour Party 3
Law of Compensation 2
Matilda (swag) 44
McCann Rush (bogus gold rush) 12, 29
Melbourne Press 5
Miners' Right 11
Mines Department 27
Mining Regulations 11
Mining Warden's Office 11
Morning Star, The (mine) 39
Mulga 17
Mullocky leader 37
Murchison goldfields 35, 41, 43, 47
Myalls tribe 71, 82, 101, 113, 120, 142, 147
Nannine Line 42
New South Wales Pastoralist Association 137
Niggers 31
Pidgin English 15
Pistol (son of Carbine) 117
Prickly Heat 8
Prince Alberts or Toe rags 45
Protector of Aboriginals Act 72
Reward Claim 11
Sacred Nugget Rush 27, 28, 33
Shinplasters (recognised currency in Darwin) 59
South Australia 86, 101, 122, 126, 135, 137
Spinifex grass 51
Spinifex Pigeon 51
Spinifex Snake 51
Sundowners 3
Swaggies 1
Tasmanian Mines Dept 159
Tinned Dog 8
Toe rags or Prince Alberts 45
Wallaby 51
Wallaby, On the 45
Wallis & Fogarty's yard 124
Wallis Fogarty and Co. 106
Waltzing Matilda 45
Whitefellows 31
Wild Colonial Boy,The (song) 3
Wild Turkeys 51
Wolfram Fields 84, 86, 87, 89, 92, 93
Woodcutters' Union 42
Yandying 48

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LOCATIONS


[ page numbers in yellow are illustrations ] Page No.
   
Adam River 159
Adamsfield 159, 161, 163
Adelaide 63, 83, 101, 115, 116, 118, 120, 124, 126, 132, 133, 135, 158
Alice Springs 53, 96, 102, 105, 106, 122, 150
Alice, The (Alice Springs) 106, 108, 113, 114, 117, 122, 123,151
America 93
Anna Creek Station 125
Anthony's Lagoon 90
Arltunga (Ranges / Goldfield / Town / Station) 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 107, 113, 116, 150, 151
Arnhem Land 73, 82
Australia 4, 33
Baley Street (Coolgardie) 13
Bamboo Creek 49, 51
Barkly Tablelands 69
Barrow Creek 61, 65, 70, 87, 94
Barrow Creek Telegraph Station 53, 93
Batavia 24
Bay of Biscay 124
Belgium 74
Beswell River 70
Black Flag 5
Blackboy Hill 74
Blackfellows' Bones Hill 117
Bond Springs Station 109, 122
Bonny Well 64
Broad Arrow 5
Brock's Creek 60
Broken Hill 117, 129, 135, 136, 158
Broken Hill Hospital 140
Broome 55
Bulong 5, 26
Burbanks mine 30
Burma 118
Calcutta in India 118
Cambridge Gulf 56
Capetown 33
Carbine, The 17
Central Australia (or Centralia) 53, 59, 68, 100, 106, 115, 117, 118, 120
Central Mt Stuart 65
Charlotte Waters 119
Charters Towers, North Qld 91
Cloncurry, Queensland 68
Coburn 135
Colgarna Soak 101, 104, 105, 107
Coober Pedy 126, 131, 133
Coolgardie 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 17, 31,43, 82, 86, 120
Coongan River 50
Crest of the Wave, The (tin mine) 61
Cue 41, 47
Dalhousie Station 123
Daly Waters 62, 63
Darling 45
Darwin 59, 60, 61, 71, 75, 76, 129
Darwin-Pine Creek Railway 61
Day Dawn 38, 40, 41
Democratic Club in Perth , WA 30
Derby 55
Derwent Valley Railway 158, 161
Devil's Marbles 64
Dunsville 17
Durban 33
Elsey Station 62
Emily Plains 122
Eve River 159
Fitzgerald 158
Flinders Range 119
Florence Creek 118
Florentine River 158, 159, 160
Fly Flat 5
Fremantle 6, 21, 33, 42, 74
Geraldton 35, 36, 37
Great Australian Bight 6
Great Barrier Reef, The 24
Great Oolgarna, The (Mica mine) 99, 107, 112
Hall's Creek 61, 99
Hamilton Bore 124
Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie 25
Hannan's (now Kalgoorlie) 5
Hartz Range 96, 100, 101, 108, 109, 111, 117, 118
Hatche's Creek 84, 86, 89, 91, 93, 111
Hay Street theatre (Perth) 19
Helena River 32
Hermansburg Mission 117
Hobart 159, 163
Horseshoe Bend 123
India and Indians 54, 108
Indian Ocean 55
Japan 93
Java 23, 68
Jervois Range 61, 65
Kalgoorlie 5, 17, 18, 29, 30, 31, 32, 42, 54, 121
Kanowna 5, 18, 26, 27
Kanowna Deep Leads 18, 26
Katherine 62, 63, 71, 80, 82
Katherine River 61, 62, 73
Kidman's Corner 117, 136, 138
Kimberley 55, 61
King River 78
Kingoonya 126, 127, 133
Kurnalpi 26, 28
Lake Austin 40
Lake Eyre 119
Lake Way (now Wiluna) 47
Launceston 158
Lightning Ridge (NSW) 133
London 33, 34, 118, 163
Love's Creek Station 105, 107
Lubra's Rush (a mine field) 80, 82
Magpies' Home (gaol in NT for black & whites) 58
Manerhill 135
Marble Bar 47, 48, 49, 50, 139
Maritana Hill 17
Marranboy 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 82, 83, 84
Marseilles 33
Mary River 61
McDonnell Range 101, 106, 111, 119, 123
McPhee's Gully 50
Meekatharra 47
Melbourne 2, 5, 19, 21, 22, 108, 158
Menzies 5, 33
Moolyalla 47, 48, 49
Mt Charlotte 17
Mt Magnet 35, 38, 39
Mullowa (Mullewa?) 36
Murray 45
Murrumbidgee 45
Nallan 42
Nannine 47
Never Never 59
New South Wales 132, 135, 136, 137, 139
Newcastle Waters 84, 90, 91, 106, 115
Northam 6
Northern Territory 58, 63, 68, 70, 90, 139, 157
Nor'-Western Australia 47
Nullagine 47
Oodnadatta 100, 101, 106, 108, 115, 116, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125
Overland Telegraph Line 53, 63
Paris 33
Peak Hill 47
Perth 6, 18, 19, 24, 32, 42, 55
Perth hospital 34
Pilbara goldfields 47, 50, 54, 55
Pine Creek 60, 61, 62, 65, 71, 75
Port Adelaide 5
Port Augusta 106
Port Darwin 58, 63, 64, 71, 90
Port Hedland 47, 49, 50, 55
Post Office (Coolgardie) 13
Powell's Creek 62, 64
Queensland 119, 123
Quinambie Station 140
Randells 26
Reservoir 17
Rocky Boat Harbour 160
Roebuck 56
Roebuck Bay 55
Roman Catholic Cemetery, Adelaide 82
Roper River 62, 63
Sandstone 41
Savage River 158
Sawback Range 161
Scotland 33, 34
Seine 33
Simpson Desert 110
Southern Cross 6
Stirling Station (Sterling) 87, 91, 93, 94, 112, 113
Stuart's Range (now Coober Pedy) 126
Sydney 23, 24, 25, 57
Tarcoola 129, 131
Tasmania 158
Tennant's Creek 64, 84
Territory 61
Thames 33
Thompson's Siding 158
Thumbs, The (mountain) 159
Townsville 23
Trapapan, The 60
Trepang 82
Twenty One Mile (21 Mile, Port Hedland track) 49, 50
Undoolya Station 107
Union Mine 61
Victoria 1, 2, 18, 103
Victorian Desert 15
Warrenheip (Victoria) 42
Wauchope Creek 86, 88, 93
West Arm 60
Western Australia 5, 24, 34, 50, 82, 123
Westralia 5, 7, 18
White Feather (now Kanowna) 5, 18
Widgemooltha 12, 13, 16
Widgemooltha Soak 14
William Creek siding 126
Wiluna 47
Wininbie Station (NSW) 54
Wire Creek Bore 124
Wyndham 56, 57
Yalgo (Yalgoo?) 37, 38
Yandama Station (Yamdama, NSW) 54, 136

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THE   PEOPLE


[ page numbers in yellow are illustrations ] Page No.
   
Aborigine, A typical sophisticated Inner Front Cover
Afghans 17, 49, 51, 53, 54, 89, 90
Alf, Black (an American Negro) 128
Allatunga 142
Allum, Mahomet 89, 91
Arunta tribe 101, 112, 114, 141
Bare-back Jimmy 57
Big Pat 43
Bill (the yardman) 25
Bill, Barefooted 131
Bill, Old (Classifier and Valuer at Coober Pedy) 134
Blackfellows 31, 48
Bloody Joe 81
Bloomfield, Louie 105
C---, Jim 134
Car-Boyd 30
Chinamen 54, 61, 69
Chinese 58, 59, 60, 61
Cockburn Ted (a water diviner) 135
Collick, Canon 30
Connors, Tassy 86
Deaf Jimmy 74, 75
Dyer, Tom (from Port Augusta) 129
Finnerty, J.M. (Warden) 30
Flynn, Jack (Reverend John) 67, 68
Forrest, John (Premier of WA) 32
Fred H---- 91
Garnet, Bill 119
Grafter 46
Gunn, Mrs (author of We of the Never Never) 62
H----, Tom 91
Hedges 42
Hogan, Long Ned 42
Hookey Jack (one armed Portuguese) 160
Hughes, Billy (Prime Minister) 93
Huns 74
Jacky (native boy) 77, 78
Jacob (an old Scandinavian) 126
Jim 98
Jimmy (Myall native) 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108/9, 111, 112
Joe (ex policeman) 83
K---, Mrs (of Arltunga) 115, 116
Kaiser Bill 74
Kelly Gang 3
Kidman, Sidney (Sir) 136
Lindsay, David (surveyor) 73
Long, Father (RC priest) 27
Lubras 47, 48, 73
M----, Jimmy 33, 34
Mac (McCarthy, the teamster) 62
Marshall, John (Hon Sec. of Diggers' Assoc.) 12
McAuliffe, Jerry 18
McC-----, Mrs 30
McCann 12, 13
McCarty (teamster) 62
McDonald (a storekeeper) 48
McPhee, Archie 50
Micawbers, The 4
Mickey the Priest 40, 41
Molly (a lubra) 113, 114
Mudd, Professor (botanist) 69
Murphy, ' Dryblower' 30, 31
Nangarras (Aboriginal Councillors) 88
Nellie 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 34
New Chums 7
O'Reilly, Michael Joseph (c.1879-1958) Inner Front Cover
Pat (the Irishman) 131
Pedlar, Danny 89, 111
Percy (from Darwin) 130
Piccaninnies 48, 73
Pretty Boy 39
Read, Jim (a Tasmanian) 128
Red Pat (an Irishman) 48
Richardson (stockman) 70
Saw, Harry 116
Scotsman 49
Sharman (stockman) 70
Smith, Billy (also 'Bronco') 115
Stacey, (prospector) 159
Tlyanana (Aboriginal Tribe) 87
Turkey Mary 48
Webb (homestead owner) 99
Webb, Mrs 99
Woodruffe, Jimmy 99
Yank 31
 

SHIPS   AND   SCHOONERS


[ page numbers in yellow are illustrations ] Page No.
   
Charon, S.S. 55
S.S. N------ 23
S.S. W----- 5

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