The age-herald., 1901-12-01
R.eA HlumaM BNOodMCuMds in AusnaMa.

5 l human being was in sight above ground. What clue could Charlie be following now? Did he expect to find his man in the sky?
 Up went the black until thirty feet in the air Here we noted that the maan trunk of the tree had been broken off years before, forming crotch for the new branches that had sprung up on either side.
 Then most astonishing thing hap pened.
 Reaching down Into the hollow of the half-dead tree trunk the tracker seized something, at the same time shouting to. the officer below:
 "Bossi Bossl catch white fellowl He play possumi'
 Out of the opening appeared mans head, and Q more miserable object. I have never seen. He was trousled, dirty, gaunt, half starved. have said that a tracker always runs down. his game. This time he certainly ran it up. .Charlie's skill at ringtailed possum hunting. helped him out, for very often when a native has killed his. game with boomerang the animal is caught in tree branch and the hunter has to climb for 1t in the manner have described.
 Charlie got us safely back to the cabin. and later on I bade him and the officer SOOu- py. ilt lCdlllS 4lnlcl,-s oAs SohA oS, paid the penalty of his crime. He said that, knowing a tracker would be put upon his trail, he had hoped to give him the impression that he had drowned while swimming the river.
 Another entertaining experience with me was my journey with Bloko. Bloko was a. favorite of the government, hay ing been employed by the Victorian po- lice on number of cases. He was after ..f l.~AA hod for 10 border, when l joined him and Officer Gefvin of the Glenn Innes Police De- partment. Bloko, like all trackers, could climb trees like an ape and was line athlete. having wonderful endurance. The efforts of the fleeing men to discon- cert Bloko amused him very much. For example, they had for some distance travelled on horseshoes, one walking be- hind the other to initiate the steps nat urally taken by horse. Then one had carried the other to disguise the fact that two persons had gone over the ground Either of these subterfuges would have really confused, if not de- ceived the average man. After fifty miles of hard tracking through gorges and forest jungles we-that is to say, the tracker and the officer-captured their men.
 Trackers have horror of travelling after dark, being constantly in fear of meeting the "Bunylb,' a fearful monster with glaring eyes, which they believe to be the spirit of an old aboriginal king who roams around swampy land at night to catch black men. You can frighten a l tracker half out of his wits by telling him you will send the bunyib after him. They also believe that giant lives on mountain tops waiting to kill them with a club. Hence they never sleep on top of mountain or near swamp, always pitching their brush tents, or minis on dry, level patch. Their only relig- ious belief Is that a huge god who has been lying aslep for ages will some time. awake and eat up the whole world.
 Their pet dish is carpet snake the fat ter the better, cooked in hot stones after being skinned have neverN eaten of this, as may be imagined, but have seen 1t prepared.
 For amusement's sake l have paid diff ferent trackers sixpence to track me from a certain point and have found 1t impossible to elude them.