The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-10-21

did not have stock of liquor on hand,
or was not engaged, we thought that we
might secure his valuable services; and,
saddling one Of our best horses, started
on my journey, and luckily found Elric
in his hut and quite sober, for he had
been on drinking bout for a week, and
his liquor was exhausted, and he was
anxious to earn more as soon as he
could.
Elric / said, as left the saddle,
and htched nay horse, you come with
me, and if you good boy plenty Of
whisky and tobac."
"What want ?" asked the brawny,
hairy-faced fellow, who was inclined to
be little sullen.
Black fellers-kill plenty bullock
no can catchee-you come-find 'em,
and plenty eat and much rum,"
"How much 7"
"Oh, lots. All you want for week"
Me come," was the answer; and
the fellow took from his hut spear,
such as the natives use for catching fish,
boomerang, and long knife, and,
without another word, plunged into the
bush, and disappeared.
l knew there was no danger of his
losing his way, and did not fear but he
would find our place in the course of
the day and some time in the afternoon
the Tracker made his appearance, and
squatted down outside OF our hut, and
waited for us to bring him stock of
damper and boiled mutton, the whole to
be washed down by half pint of rum
undiluted by water. Then he smoked
one or two pipes of tobacco, and curled
down in the shade for a sleep, first utter
ing this prophecy =
Black fellers come might. Me find
'em morrow"
Sure enough they did come, and killed
one of our best cows; and, when we
discovered the fact, we woke up Elric,
and told him what the blacks had
done.
eyes, me said come-no moon-all
clouds good night for black fellers.
Give me eat, and den we go find 'em."
| he aIe HIS DItdhldSt, Uub ulQ uOb ulihh
his rum, as he wanted to be clear-head-
ed and then we went to the place where
the remains of the last slaughtered
animal were lying. Elric examined the
ground in all directions, and did not
speak work until he had made thor
ough survey. We could not see a foot
print ON the sun-baked earth or on the
grass; but our eyes were not accustomed
to such things, and we knew that the
Tracker would make no mistakes, there
fore we were not surprised when he held
up four fingers, and said,-
Four black fellers do dis. Dey carry
away much meat, and go dar; and he
pointed in the direction of the hills.
Scan you find them ?" we asked.
The old fellow allowed an expression
of contempt to pass over his face at the
absurdity of the question; but all that
he said was,--
"You come"
We took two of our best stockmen
with us, mounted our horses, and fol-
lowed Elric, who started off ON dog
trot, his head down, and eyes on trail,
plain enough to him, but not discernible
to US.
Over rocks and dead earth the Tracker
led the way, never at loss for mo-
ment, stopping only for q second when a
ledge was gone over, now winding
around the bed of brook or mud-hole,
but never leaving the marks of foot
print in the soft earth. On, on we
went, and at noon saw smoke at the foot
of hill toward which we were headed.
"There damned black fellers," the
Tracker said. &c mo more hoss. Walk
See boss, and run like debbles."
We fastened our horses to some gum
trees, and resumed our tramp, keeping
under the shadow of bushes, and never
slackening our pace, although it was a
hard one, and the hot sun poured down
upon our heads as though it would beat
us to the earth.
"Now mind we by 'eml' whispered
Elric; and we drew our revolvers, and
waited for the signal for a rush.
A little more creeping and crawling
and then the Tracker raised his hand
and with bound we sprang into tbs
presence of dozen or twenty men
women, and children, who were stuffing
themselves with the meat which they
had stolen from us.
The black fellows sprang to their feet
and would have run and made theil