but , for a boy from retta dixon in darwin , whose mother was a proud larrakia woman and whose father was a stockman from the buffalo country out east of darwin , that point stuart country around where the mary and wildman rivers ran , he had done ok. his father had not been much good really , a white fella , with a bit of chinese , who mostly shot buffalo for their skins , and in odd times shot a few crocs and broke a few horses .