By Michael J. Leahy
In the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties there have been adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by means of robust younger males within the outback of Australia and the gold fields of latest Guinea. this is often the diary of 5 years spent in scorching pursuit—not of honor and glory, yet of pleasure and riches—by one such adventurer, Michael "Mick" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and pals Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor. Leahy and his affiliates explored the unknown inside of recent Guinea, looking gold and making touch for the 1st time with the aborigines of the inner mountains and valleys.
White guy used to be unknown to those usually cannibalistic, continually risky, aborigines who proposal the seekers of yellow within the streams somewhat mad, and hence effortless prey. The chronicles in their explorations and their enormous quantities of photos introduced information of those local peoples to the surface international. In doing so, they replaced endlessly our figuring out of the human panorama of latest Guinea, and carved a spot in historical past for those explorers who, braving the surroundings looking for gold, discovered people.
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