Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-25
At, ITALIAN hIE. hE.).. .G. -aINES
Eaco Ih t Dcl.es the Influences
 or Civil.Sct.ol.
Native Policemen Who Track Their Own People Down and Slaughter Theme In the CrueIest Manner for
 Personal Gain.

It is a fact that it is hard to teach the Australian aborigincs anything useful says an article in the Californian
 They arc naturally lazy and indolent,
 unsettled and of rowing disposition
 They will not stay long in any place. and if raised from their degraded posi-,
 tion into more comfortable conditions.
 necessitating the breaking with their
 natural mode of living. they will al-
 most invariably return to this at their
 first opportunity, and the same may be
 said of the half-castes, who otherwise are far superior to their sable parent
 and her relatives It Is an oft-rcpeated occurrence in
 Australia tlInt a half-caste child has
 been removed, when eight or ten years
 old, to the surroundings of civilization.
 aas been given an education equal to
 any white child of the better classes of
 the community, and notwithstanding
 this, upon coming in contact with his
 own race. has returned to the black fellows camp. ignoring book learning. fine linen, and the comforts of civil. ized life
 In two capacities the black fellows
 have been found satisfactory--as OAoSNNSAS dhSA HI thC POIIGS can only find correct expression for . their power of tracking by calling it instinct I have been with them searching for men whose every trace
 had been practically lost. but the black tracller has found them in spite of all They are more sure than bloodhounds. When the track ceases,
 through some mysterious agency, they cn6 f@ l-N,@xr, k< G.,G again.
 In the native police they are very
 useful as trackers. This police consists
 of small troops of mounted, uniformed
 black fellows under the command of European officers. They act as gend- armes in the outlying districts. and are principally used for the purpose of
 bringing marauding blacks to account. It is not uncommon that the up-coun- try blacks spear the cattle on the sta
 tion or murder travellers or settlers, and it is principally in such cases that
 the native police become useful
 The manner in which they surprise a
 camp of savage aborigines is charac- teristic. Having ascertained. that they are near camp some of them dis
 mount and strip to the skin. Then they IdSISH JuelT CdTDlue to ClelT dnkI6 Oy
 means of rope or a chain, and. trail
 ing it through the long grass, approach
 the camp.
 The unsuspecting blacks come to meet their sable brothers, when, quick as lightning, the trooper stoops, brings . his carbine to level, and sends death and destruction into the camp
 The aboriginal thinks a good deal more of his dogs than of his women. Dogs are always found about the camp in large numbers. They are of a mon- grel breed and generally starved to fe- | rocity. The black fellow in most cases is a polygamist, and his wives are used for carrying everything from their babies to their husbands weapons-in.
 cluding all their camp paraphernnlia.
 rations, or whatever else they may wish to transport, while the lordly
 master marches along with perhaps a
 waddie or a boomerang as the only bur den to impede his progress.
 But if, as in many instances, the ! blacks be savage the white men with whom they come in contact are no less so. The life of black fellow is count, | ed as nothing, and the depredations perpetrated upon them by settlers are | numerous and often Darticularlv cruel