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Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kennedy, Edward B
Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hours before we arrivedat the foot of the range, and then we foundthat it was impracticable for horses, owing torocks of every size and shape piled in con-fusion one on top of the other; nor was thereany sort of way for four-footed beasts acrossthis basaltic upheaval. No matter ; we hobbled out the horses, andsent the boys to reconnoitre. Presently a couple of them returned, strippedas usual, and told us that they had left theothers to watch the black fellows camp, whichwas on a lagoon and just over the range. What a scramble that was ! Yet the troopers,with their naked feet, glided about the rockslike lizards, and whilst we were still followingthem they seemed to disappear. After threehours of this toil we were suddenly assailedwith a shower of boomerangs, but we hadgot into the timber now and no one was hit.I saw several of these weapons smashed intosplinters on the rocks, whilst some passed ontheir course and fell harmlessly behind us,not returning to their owners, as I have heard
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CATHEDRAL ROCK, CHJLLAGOE, DISTRICT lOF CAIRNS, A THOUSAND MILES N.W. OF BRISBANE. \To face p. Il8. IX) SURRENDER IN THE QUEENS NAME! 119 it Stated at home. In trick-throwing this featis often accomplished, but not with a fightingboomerang. Presently three or four shotsrang out from the blady grass at our veryfeet, and our men, despising alike boomerangsand spears, rushed forward. Amongst other incidents I saw a black hurla nullah-nullah at a trooper named Brennan,at close quarters ; the latter dodged it, pickedit up, and knocked the black over spinning.This black was clad in one of the shirts ofthe murdered shepherd ; subsequently wefound others wearing portions of his garments.Soon these latter were bolting in everydirection and the boys after them. Some ofthem rushed into the lagoon and disappeared,only to come up with their nostrils under awater-lily. These I could not see at all, butthe boys pointed them out. Meantime thejins were viewing the fray from a distance. The orders in t

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