In a reeking bar at the Pilbarra goldfields, a miner named Smith decides to gamble on a rumoured new find in the waterless desert. He and a companion go blind into the interior, hunting for water along a dried billabong, until they stumble on a hidden community of wild, skin-clad men whose ancestors bore the convict’s broad arrow.
An inventive lost-race adventure from 1897, for readers who enjoy Rider Haggard and the Australian outback. Download the free EPUB.