Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-06-17
BETTER THAN BLooDAouNDs
The Unteachahle Australians Wonderful
Ability As a rracker.

The Unteachable Australians WONDERFUL
Ability a rracser.
II is fact that il is hard TO teach
the Australian aborigines anything
useful. They are naturally lazy and
INDECENT unsettled, and OF a rowing
disposition, says a writer in the Cali
fornian. They will not stay long at
any place. and If raised from their de-
graded position into more comforta-
bic conditions necessitating the break
ing with their natural mode OF living, /
they will most invariably return 10 II
at their first opportunity and the
same may he said of the half-casteS
who otherwise are far superior 10
their sable parents and other rel
! atives
1t is an oft-repeated occurrence in
! Australia that half.caSte child has
been removed, when or 10 years old,
to the surroundings of civilization,
has been given an education equal To
any white child of the better classes
of the community, and notwlthstand-
ing this, upon coming into contact
with his own race, has returned TO
the black fellows camp, ignoring
book learning, fine linen, and the
comforts of civilized life. In two
capacities the black fellows have been
found satisfactory-as crackers and
in the native police. / can only find
correct expression for their power
of tracking by calling it instinct l
have been with them searching for
men whose everv trace had been prac-
tically lost, but the black tracker had
found them in spite of all.
They are more sure than blood
hounds. When the track ceases,
through some mysterious agency they
seem to know where TO go to find 1t
again. In the native police they are
very useful as crackers. This police
consists of small troops of mounted,
uniformed black fellows under the
command of European officers. They
act as gendarmes in the outlying dis
, tricts and are principally used for the
purpose Of bringing marauding blacks
, to account 1t is not uncommon that
the upcountry blacks spear the cattle
on the station, or murder travellers or
settlers, and it is principally in such
cases that the native police becomes
useful.
, The manner in which they surprise
a camp Of savage aboriginese is char
acteristic Having ascertalned that
they are near camp some OF them
, dismount and strip to the skin. Then
, they fasten their carbines to then
= ankles by means of piece OF rope OF
a chain, and, trailing it through the
. long grass, approach the camp. The
unsuspecting blacks come to meet
their sable brothers, when, quick as
q lightning, the trooper stoops bring!
= his carhine to level and sends death
- and destruction into the camp. The
\ aboriginal thinks good deal more o
his dogs than of his women. Dog
= are always found about the camp IL
large numbers
), They are OF mongre breed anC
i generally starved to ferocity. Th
\ black fellow in most places Is a poyg
amist, and his wives are used 70
- carrying everything from their babe
= to their husbands eapons-incIud
10 ing all their camp paraphernalia, ra
-" tiOns, or whatever else they ma
d. wish to sport--while the lordI
; master marches along with perhaps
~ waddle or boomerang as the onl
burden to impede his progress. Blu
NJ if, as in many instances, the black
o. he savage the white men with whol
9 they come into contact are no less 81
,o The life of black fellow is counte
" as nothing and the depredations pc
u petrated on them by settlers are nun
" erous and often particularly crue
The spearing of few head of Gait
n on station, where thousands a
- grazing on the runs, has often CO
10 the lives OF many black fellows ar
- / know Of several instances whe
"a the camp hao been ralded and u
~ women carried away by white me
~ while it is fact that there are Sc
y tiers who have made it point
q shoot any black fellow found on the
~ vast domains, TO avenge some murd
m committed in the first place by u
20 blacks