MEN AND SUPERSTITIONS
In an article contributed by him to The Reveille, published at ' Nairobi, British East Africa—his r-Wvn being men and superstitions—Mr Delebere Barker states that, years ago, when he was in the New Zealand Alps, be mj left in sole charge of some 30 sheep dogs. One night all the dogs began to bowl dismally. ' Some spirit seemed to possess them, and they uttered most blood curdling bowls until midnight. As be was unable to sleep, he walked outside and gnzeel at the surrounding rocky crags, and listened to the reverberating roar of the snow river that raced along the the stony bed of the valiey. Suddenly he beard a shrill cry, evidently a human scream. It seemed to come from a hut across the river, where an old gold prospctor lived. In the moniinji the old man's body was found, brutally mutilated, and bis gold gone.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13464, 19 April 1917, Page 6
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