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1. When a man sat beside Robyn on her train to Alice Springs, what was his attitude toward her?

The man who sat beside Robyn on her train ride to Alice Springs treated her as though she was crazy for going there alone, without male accompaniment. He looked over her body openly. As he warned her about the Aborigines there who would rape her, he offered to keep an eye on her by going back to her cabin and getting acquainted. In essence, he was suggesting a more "socially accepted" form of rape in exchange for protection from the blacks, who he claimed would openly rape her.

2. What types of people made up the thirteen thousand white people living in Alice?

The thirteen thousand white people living in Alice consisted mostly of government workers, misfits and adventurers, retired cattle or sheep station owners, truck drivers and small business operators. This last group's main business was to take advantage of tourists who visited from America, Japan and urban Australia for great adventures in this last romantic outpost, similar to the Old Wild West of America.

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