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Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kennedy, Edward B
Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s his mind was a blank.He had sucked the dewy herbage every night,but this act merely tantalised his palate. Hedeclared that he saw blackfellows one evening ;but this was certainly a phantom of the brain,for the boys had specially looked out forsigns of natives, without result. It appears that he fell into a state of coma,or indifference to everything, before we foundhim, but had the sense to stagger into theshade and cover his face and feet from thesun and mosquitoes before lying down, to die,as he expected. He thanked us all for seeing him through,and declared in a joky way that he shouldnow apply for a post in the N.M.P., as hehad had a bit of powerful experience. So we bid him and his eccentric guardiangood-bye ; but the latter was bound to havethe last word, for as we rode away he cried 266 THE JACKEROO (Ch. XIV out, You said the buy wanted a cheerfulcompanion to complate his cure—and faixhes got that same in me. So he concludedas he drew himself up stiffly to answer oursalute.
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(From a drawing by the late Sir Frank Lockwood.) iTo fc ace p 266.

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