The Monticellonian., 1906-11-01
"THE LOST LEGION"
NEW FIGHTING FORCE Ih THE
 WORLDS ARMIES.
At Home in Any Part of the Earth, Their Services in Warfare VIII Be of High Value to coun.
 tries Employing Them.

The first fire of a new army has been lighted. the world has a new fighting force. the fighting force Of the lost legion" The legion of frontiersmen, says the London Sketch. have made their first bivouac. not, in deed as they would have wished it, under a sky reddened by the glare of battle. but that they might notify in time of peace that they will be ready in time of strife. They are becoming an arm of imperial defense and they aim at being the intelligence branch of the service when the god of war calls for sacrifice They represent the true frontiersmen, men who have worked, hunted or fought in wild countries or at sea, the brotherhood of the camps. Guerrilla tactics are second nature to them, and so it Is that they will act as guides, scouts, pioneers and mobile forces for raiding. Wherever their numbers are sufficient they will have a command
 Typical of all are their founder and honorary secretary. Ffontiersman Roger Pocock. and the London com mandant, Mr. De flora. Both are born adventurers-we use the word in it's older senses, deprecating the fashion that has distorted the term into mean ing some form of skunk. Frontiers man Poeock has been many things. He was clerk in the cable service, 1aborer on a fruit farm and a general s,. n ... .Ia .I- vey hand, boots" in hotel or nav vies. milkman,s bookkeeper log haul CT, railroad navvy, book agent, peddler of photographs, dairyman and trooper in the northwest police-all in two years. While trooper he took part in the forced march of 42 miles a day for seven days frfom Regina to Prince Albert, in a vain endeavor to prevent the northwest rebellion. but it was not his fortune to finish. save under the Red Cross. Half way he was frozen and so was invalided with pension.
 Next he was civil servant, trader, war correspondent. missionary, sea man with Yokohama pirates, robbing the warehouses of seal rookeries; free lance journalist to British Columbia, special correspondent at Kootnay min ing camp, then a new creation pho tographer. keeper of cigar stand, painter of photographs and newspaper agent in the Blue mountains Then home called and he started as a nov elist, but it was not long before he was back in the wilds as cowboy in Alberta, gold miner and captain of pack train. A little later he placed to his credit what is probably the longest lone ride on record-from Fort Mcleod Canada to the City of Mex ico-3.600 miles of rough country. covered in 200 days. In the South Al rican war he was in turn in a loot ing corps tunpaid), whose business it was to capture Boer food supplies. and in the national scouts. His most re- cent expedition was up the west coast of Greenland
 MT De Hora, the well-known mining engineer. who was born on stock ranch in California and brought up as bowboy. has unique record in that at the early age of 23 he stole a bat tlship. He had been before the mast, pearling in the south seas, and, scent ing further adventure, he threw in his lot with a revolutionary leader and, aided by boats crew speedily gath cred together. contrived to steal the war vessel Huasear from Peru.
 In her he committed piracy on the high seas by stopping British tramp to fight II. NJ. s. Shah. He was badly beaten, but escaped. only to find it necessary to surrender to the ruling government. His next expedition. made in partnership with the former revolutionary leader, ended in the dis covery of the famous Maghellan treas ure-S2 900, 900 in a sunken Spanish galleon of the seventeenth century spoil promptly confiscated by schooner sent by the Argentine gov ernment, whose capital MT. De Hora entered a little later at the head of 300 cowboys from the Rio Negro. It was he also who led Col. North's ex- ploring expedition from Brazil to Ecuador. Thus adventure followed ad- Venture until the South African war broke out At that time he was acting as mining engineer in Johannesburg and. seeing the state the city was likely to get into, he raised a corps of 600 neutrals to act as armed police. These did their work until the arrival of Lord Roberts, when their organizer formally handed over the place to the care of Capt, Walter Kirton. also, by the way, of the London command. Surely difficult record to eclipse.