The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony . to the trained boys could have executedit in such a neat manner, and they were wellrewarded, whilst their fellow troopers and thejins were not forgotten, and all were swornto secrecy. The Frenchman inserted a strong letter inthe local rag to say that he and his crewhad been nearly murdered and quite robbedby a tribe of ghostly looking cannibals,concluding his violent letter by asking, Where are the Police ? Presumably thetownspeople had a shrewd guess that it w
The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony . to the trained boys could have executedit in such a neat manner, and they were wellrewarded, whilst their fellow troopers and thejins were not forgotten, and all were swornto secrecy. The Frenchman inserted a strong letter inthe local rag to say that he and his crewhad been nearly murdered and quite robbedby a tribe of ghostly looking cannibals,concluding his violent letter by asking, Where are the Police ? Presumably thetownspeople had a shrewd guess that it would 14 2IO BIRDS AND RABBITS [Ch. XV have made them appear as New Chumshad they applied to the force; and so thematter ended. I heard subsequently that the Frenchmansettled down on his country lot and proveda very good man, for though he passed onany reference to rabbits with a shrug of theshoulders, yet he acclimatised every sort ofuseful shrub and fruit-tree, fenced in withhis rabbit proof wire, and in a few seasonsproduced a show which interested all thosewho came to see his botanical gardens, andthey were - U^h%. ?? J^ -^ -& ^S?s r: i^i - ^ ^( ; 7 / / i CHAPTER XVI RIDING FEATS A Bobbery Pack—Wild Pigs—A Dingo Hunt—B rides a Bullock—Squeejees Rough Paces— Rarefied at Last—B wins his Bet During one of our patrols, whilst on thereturn journey and within some fifty milesof our camp, we spelled for a couple of days at the cattle station of a Mr. B He was a native of , and hadoverlanded cattle and horses into Queenslandwhilst yet that colony was a portion of his own. B ,though of pure Scottish descent, combined all the useful characteristics of ablackfellows strongest points—tracking andscouting—in fact, I almost invariably foundthat the native born colonists were nearlyequal to the troopers for alertness and readingsigns ; men of untold value to act as the eyesof an army, and who would not allow them-selves or their followers to be ambushed or
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