AUSTRALIAN BLACK TRACKERS.
As Lord Kitchener has cabled to the Governor-General of Canada for expert trackers, there really seems no reason (says the Melbourne Age) why the Commonwealth Government should not take the hint, which was only not put direct because Lord Kitchener is probably unaware of Australia's limitless resources in this respect. While Winnipeg Bill, Saguenay Pierre, and Man-not-afraid-ofßain are English, French, and Red Indian, one and all able trackers and likely to be holy terrors to the wily De Wet when once they get to work on the veldt, we may make bold ,to say that King Jacky of Turramurra, and King Tommy of Binalong, aforetime warriors bold and lusty, could be advantageously employed in South Africa in guiding the rooineks by spruit and kloof to the secret haunt of Stayn and his peripatetic •' Government." The spectacle of one of our aborigines in full attire of white clay stripes, fluff, spears, and waddy, suddenly appearing at dawn, would severely bother Botha, and perhaps demoralise the most adamantine dopper.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7371, 24 January 1902, Page 4
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170AUSTRALIAN BLACK TRACKERS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7371, 24 January 1902, Page 4
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