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Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years'

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Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia by David Wynford Carnegie. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4975.

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