REMAINS OF HUMAN BEINGS.
FOUND IN A CAVE, By Telegraph—Press Asscoiation-Oopj-right Melbourne, November 25. The Inspector of Aborigines in tho Northern Territory reports finding in a cavo on tho Roper River a largo quantity of remains of human beings of a'l ages. A native guide has stated that many years ago forty or fifty natives camped in tho cave, and that a flash of lightning passed.through it and killed every cne of them. An aged native told the inspector that his parents took him to see the bodies tho day after tho incident, which is estimated to have happened seventy" years since.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 5
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102REMAINS OF HUMAN BEINGS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 5
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