Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Northern Territory as It Is: A Narrative of the South Australian Parliamentary Party's Trip, and Full Descriptions of the Northern Territory; Its Settlements and Industries
Thirteenth day of April that they were welcomed back again to the colony. What they did in the meantime the following pages reveal. What I saw of the country after the Party left they also show. If the reader who shall plod faithfully through them be not too overpowered by the relief which comes with a sense that a disagreeable task has been overcome, he will be convinced that that extreme northern country of ours, which we have called by courtesy the Northern Territory, but too often, with bitterness, our White Elephant, is a rich possession which other colonies well might envy us. And if he be not convinced of this, the fault.
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