“TOO DARK" SEEKS HIS BRIDE
On a most important mission, “ Too Dark,” a jolly aboriginal deck hand o£ the Larrabia, Government Northern Australian patrol steamer, has been granted two months’ leave of absence, “Too Dark” left Darwin in the St. Nicholas for a “ walk about ” in his native country. As soon as he reaches Milingimbi mission station he will travel with all possible speed to Yirkalla, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and take delivery of the girl bride whose hand he has been seeking and paying for since the day she was born. The girl is now about 14. “ Too Dark ” took four bags of flour, five shirts, four axes, one dozen combs, one dozen mirrors, six bottles of hair oil, and six photographs of himself aboard the lugger. With all this opulence he will be “ king alonga Arnhem Land.” He will draw heavily on his riche* to make a final time payment to the parents of his bride-to-be, and great will be the rejoicing at Yirkalla. As was fitting for a man of such position in the world, “Too Dark” attired himself in a shirt of 10 different colours-and a cowboy’s hat with a brim a foot wide, before leaving Darwin.
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 3
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