These simple sketches and photographs of Territory life centre around the young Aboriginal girl Bett-Bett (Dolly Bonson) and her dog Sue; as she appears from the Never-Never, stays awhile, learns a little, laughs a lot, wonders much, and finally returns to the bush again. This early tale of life in the Northern Territory was first published in 1905, and was followed up by the classic We of the Never-Never, the author's memoir of life with her family on Elsey Station.

Mrs Aeneas Gunns' account of Northern Territiory life and the small Aboriginal girl who took refuge with her for a short time in 1902.

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Excerpt from The Little Black Princess: A True Tale of Life in the Never-Never Land Bett-bett must have been a Princess, for she was a King's niece, and if that does not make a Princess of any one, it ought to do so! She didn't Sit - like fairy-book princesses - waving golden sceptres Over devoted subjects, for she was just a little bush nigger girl or lubra, about eight years Old. She had, however, a very wonderful palace - the great lonely Australian bush. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.