The Elbert County tribune., 1906-11-01
"THE LOST LEGION"
NEW FIGHTING FORCE IN 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 1t,
under sky Redeemed 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 1t Is
that they will act as guides, scouts.
pioneers and mobile forces for raiding.
Wherever their numbers are sufficient
they will have command.
Typical of all are their founder and
| honorary secretary, Frontiersman
Roger Pocock. and the London com
mandant, Mr.. De Hora. Both are born
adventurers-we use the word in its
| older senses, deprecating the fashion
that has distorted the term into mean
| ing some form of skunk. Frontiers
man Pocock has been many things.
| He was clerk in the cable service. q
| laborer on a fruit farm and a general
farm in Ontario, insurance clerk sur
vey hand. boots" in hotel or nav
vies, milkman's bookkeeper, log haul
er. railroad NAVY, book agent. peddler
of photographs, dairyman and trooper
in the northwest police-all in two
years. While trooper he took part
jim the forced march of 40 miles day
for seven days frfom Regina to Prince
| Albert, in vain endeayor 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 a
! pension.
Next he was civil servant trader,
war correspondent. missionary. sea
man with Yokohama pirates, robbing
the warehouses of seal rookerles; free
lance journalist to British Columbia.
special correspondent at Kootnay min
\ tographer, keeper of a cigar stand
painter of photographs and newspaper
/ agent in the Blue mountains. Then
| home called and he started as a nov
! eliSt, but 1t was not long before fe
WINS back in the wilds as a cowboy
in Alberta, gold miner and captain of
n pack train. A little later he placed
to his credit what is probably the
| longest lone ride on record-from Fort
J Mcleod, Canada, to the City of Mex.
jco-3,600 miles of rough country
covered in 200 days. In the South AT
rican war he. was in turn in loot
ing corps (unpaid). whose business II
was to capture Boer food supplies, and
in the national scouts. His most re-
cent expedition was up the west coast
| of Greenland.
Mr.. De Hora, the well-known mining
engineer, who was born on a stock
ranch in California and brought up as
a bowboy, has a 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 Huascar from Peru.
In her he committed piracy on the
high seas by stopping a British tramp
steamer, with the result that he had
to fight II. NJ. S. Shah. He was badly
/ beaten, but escaped, only to find 1t
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 100000 in a sunken Spanish
galleon of the seventeenth century
I spoil promptly confiscated by a
schooner sent by the Argentine gov.
ernment, whose capital Mr.. De Hora
| entered a little later at the head OF
300 cowboys from the Rio Negro. 1t
was he also who led Col. North's ex.
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 corps OF
900 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.