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Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 Australian Christmases, Both Merry and Solemn
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Describes a Christmas Meston spent alone with Cape York aborigines. They feasted on sea delicacies below a 'magnificent granite mountain'. Meston recounts how 'One of the blacks had been born at the foot of that mountain, near the waterfall, and in the morning he told me the ghost of his father had come down in the night from the mountain and spoke to him.'

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    y separately published work icon The World's News 22 December 1923 Z1281997 1923 newspaper issue 1923 pg. 11
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