The Meridian Tribune. (Meridian, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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OU will not find
the name of John
Romanes on the
scroll of honor,
for men win the
badge of fame in
many - ways and
there are many
degrees of valor
and many vary-
ing rewards won
by its display.
“Peace has her
heroes, no less re-
nowned than
war,” is the as-
sertion of the poet, but this must
be qualified by the omission of the
word “no.” It is so at any date in
the case of John Romanes, for his
deed was performed in the silence
and solitude of the great Austra-
lian bush, without a single specta-
tor who could bear witness to its
exemplitude of courage of the
highest quality, devotion seldom
equaled, and a self-sacrifice so
rare that few men unacquainted
with the perils of the bush can ap-
preciate it.
As the subject of Romanes’ hero-
ism it shall be my duty to tell to
a wider circle of readers the events
which earned for a hero no greater
reward than my own undying grati-
tude and admiration.
of my head, and the first thing Ro-
manes had to do was to stop the flow
of blood and pack me up somehow
out of the way of swarms of ants that
already were busy at work.
Having made me as comfortable as
possible, Romanes went in search of
the camels, his idea being to strap
me to one and get away without de-
lay, for if the natives should return
in the morning in increased numbers,
neither of us would ever leave the
spot. Poor John, he little knew then
what a burden he had assumed in
finding me alive! Better for him
would it have been if I had really died
then and he could have buried me,
and, unhampered by a delirious man,
have hastened to safety. His .first
disappointment came when he stood
up to listen for the bells of the cam-
els, which should have been heard.
He failed to catch the faintest tinkle.
His disappointment became alarm
when not three hundred yards from ■
the camp he found our pack camel
dead, with several spears sticking it,
and the other two, fifty yards fuurther
on, hopelessly wounded.
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Western Australia has made to
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"You are mistaken,” she said. “We
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For over fifty years the rabbits,
imported to Australia by some mis-
guided immigrant, have been a fear-
Full scourge to the eastern states of
the island continent. Net fences had
proved a success in the east and the
government at once entered on the
stupendous task of running a rabbit-
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to act as a barrier, to the invading
hosts. That fence stands today, a
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1,500 miles long, and stretches from
Starvation Boat harbor, in the Great
Australian Bight, to Condon, in the
Ninety Mile Beach, away in the
tropic north. It cost the country
over $1,500,000.
With him I should go a
later. This we did, taking with
the two best
out two days dozen savages in all their war paint.
1 4 us I rose and literally threw myself at
camels available for the nearest saddle, against which a
second Winchester rested. With that
in my hand I could make a bolt and
protect myself in a running fight. But
that was not to be. A second spear,
aimed with half a dozen others, went
through my left wrist, and, as I in-
voluntarily dropped the rifle and
grabbed at the spearshaft, a waddy
descended on my head and my senses
left me. —
3 His determination not to leave me
p placed him in this predicament: he
had first.of all to shift me to a place
- of safety before morning brought the
I natives on us again; and alone he
5 had then to get me into the De Grey
: depot, a distance of nearly eighty
I miles, the best part of it over water-
′ less country. It was impossible for
/ me to move, of my own initiative, for
1 that had left me and I lay like a log,
senseless, delirious. If my life was
- to be saved I had to be moved from
, the spot where I fell and be carried
. to a place of safety. That was the
- conclusion Romanes arrived at and
i before another dawn broke we were
; ten miles away from the scene of our
last camp and I was safely resting
: in the shade of a bush, while Ro-
manes went in search of water and
food.
In the dark hours of the next night
Romanes carried me another twelve
miles and collapsed beside me near
an old native well.
How long into that day he slept,
Romanes never knew, but when he
awakened, probably as the result of
my ravings, he saw a native coming
along the fence scarcely two hundred
yards away. His first thought was
to shoot at sight, believing that the
black must be one of our old enemies,
but feeling certain that the black fel-
low could not have seen us in our
retreat, he decided to wait till he
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Before leaving the depot I asked
both Romanes and the man in charge
whether the natives were “bad” along
the track.
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caused the indgestion. I kept on with
the coffee, and kept on with the trou-
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grow worse from year to year until it
developed into chronic diarrhea, nau-
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could keep nothing on my stomach and
became a mere shadow, reduced from
159 to 128 pounds.
“A specialist informed me I had a
very severe case of catarrh of the
stomach, which had got so bad he
could do nothing for me, and I became
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To maintain the barrier in a state
of effectiveness against the depreda-
tions of the hostile natives, the blind
attacks of emus and kangaroos and
the ravages of flood, tornado and fire,
a whole army of men are employed
constantly patrolling it.
In the far north, however, where
the fast disappearing bands of black
aborigines are still in great numbers
and are savage and treacherous, the
boundary riders always work in pairs.
They have great hardships to encoun-
ter and great dangers to brave—con-
sequently they are picked men and re-
ceive high wages. They go armed al-
ways, and in the spinifex country,
with which my story is concerned,
they are mounted on camels, because
of the scarcity of water.
I was associated in the early days
of the construction of the fence with
the advanced survey party and, on
the completion of the structure, was
induced by the high pay to accept the
position of inspector of a length of
fence in the far north. A “length” is
the name given to a section of the
fence which is patrolled or ridden
by one boundary rider, or two, as the
case might be, but an inspector’s
“length” may consist, as in my case
it did, of three ordinary- lengths, a
distance in this instance of close’on
three hundred miles. The inspector
establishes a central depot where
stores are kept, a decent well sunk
and where the boundary riders meet
after working back along their
lengths.
It was in April, 1908, that I left Sep-
aration Well, the southernmost point
of my section of the fence, and pro-
ceeded north to the De Grey river a
distance of 200 miles, where I had my
main depot. There I was to meet Ro-
manes and his mate Gregory, who had
«to patrol the last hundred miles of
my territory. When I reached the
depot, then in charge of two men
who were kept there as a relief, I
found Romanes in camp, with his
mate, who was very ill with malaria
and quite unfit to take the track for
some time, although his condition
was not serious. I was particularly
anxious to see the northern section of
my part of the fence, because there
had been a tropical flood a week or
two before, and from some overland-
ing stockmen I had heard that the
fence was in a bad state of repair.
When I questioned Romanes, whom
I did not know very well—in fact I
had entertained a suspicion of him
from the moment the reports as to
the state of his particular length came
to me—he was rather nettled and
challenged me to come out with him
without delaying for a week’s rest
to which he was entitled after com-
pleting.his out and back ride The
camels were in good fettle and I took
Romanes at his word and decided that
"Queensland Charlie, that ‘boy’ of
Turnbull’s at the De Gray station,
told me that ‘Major’ and ‘Toby’ were
loose again and heading this way, but
I don’t believe lt’” said Romanes.
They would make back into West
Kimberley to dodge the police, and
anyway, if they do get down here
Turnbull tells me he had word that
they are not armed. I don’t reckon
we’ll see anything of ’em, boss.”
“Well, I hope not," I said, “but
we’ll take some extra cartridges and
keep a sharp lookout.”
As events proved, my fears of
trouble with the roving band under
Major and “Toby,” two escaped na-
tive prisoners and the worst charac-
ters that were ever loose, were bet-
ter grounded than I knew.
It took us eight days to make, the
one hundred miles of our eastward
journey, as we made a careful inspec-
tion of the fence, which I found to be
in better shape than I expected, al-
though we had to do a lot of strength-
ening to the temporary repairs which
Romanes had effected on his previous
trip. At the end of my section near
Mount Bruce we met the two. boun-
dary riders who had worked south
from the next section to the north.
They had heard nothing of the move-
ments of Major and Toby and report-
ed everything quiet. We parted com-
pany next day, Romanes and myself
proceeding on what should have been
a six-day trip back and the other men
returning north;
We made a good day’s march and
camped at a rain shed about eighteen
miles out, just as it was getting dusk.
Not a sign nor a sight of a native
had either Romanes or myself seen.
In fact, we had not given them a
thought. I lit a fire of mulga .sticks
behind a clump of gidgie bush and
was soon busily engaged on the task
of making a “damper,” or bread baked
What actually transpired from the
moment I lost touch with mortal ex-
istence until I found myself again in
the depot I had to glean from the un-
willing answers of Romanes to my
question, and fill in the blanks from
my imagination.
When he left me to follow the par-
rots, Romanes did not anticipate go-
ing more than a quarter of a mile, at
most, into the scrub and expected to
be back in camp within fifteen min-
in the ashes. A flock of Nor’ West
parrots flew screeching overhead. Ro-
manes hobbled the camels and turned
them loose with their bells making
a monotonous “clamp-clamp,” as they
went in search of young and tender
spinifex bush.
How would stewed parrot go,
boss?” Romanes asked me as he
looked after the rowdy birds, which
had settled in a solitary gum tree a
couple of hundred yards inside the
fence.. .
“Pretty good,” I replied. “Take the
gun and bag a few.”
Romanes picked up my double-bar-
reled Greener gun, stuffed a couple
of extra cartridges into his pocket,
and was about to follow up the par-
rots when I advised him to take the
Winchester too, saying that he might
bring back the tail of a young kan-
garoo for soup.
I lost sight of Romanes a minute
later and went on with my prepara-
tions for our evening meal. The
“damper” was' made and I was just
raking out the clean live coals of the
fire on which to bake it, when I heard
a rustle in the bush at my back. As
I turned a spear whizzed by me and
stuck quivering in the “grub bag” of
the camel saddle a few feet away!
At the same moment I saw half a
utes at the outside, but before he
could get a shot at the birds they
had led him on for a mile. It was
while he was on his way back to
the camp that he heard a shout, which
resembled very closely the yell of
triumph the natives give when they
have captured their game, be it hu-
man or animal.
Approaching the camp cautiously,
Romanes caught sight of the natives
raiding the outfit, tearing open the
“grub bags” and generally making
themselves acquainted with every-
thing in the camel packs.
Having “tumbled to- what had hap-
pened, Romanes’ first thought was to
open fire on the blacks and before the
natives knew what had happened a
double charge of parrot shot struck
them. With a yell they arose, the
leader (whom it subsequently tran-
spired was Major) grabbing the Win-
chester and firing wildly in the direc-
tion whence the shot had come. Ro-
manes had taken shelter behind a
bush which, while it obscured him
from view, gave him no protection
against bullets. He fired one shot
from his rifle, and, dashing from his
cover, made for a tree a hundred
yards away, the natives following in
a body. Once behind a stout trunk he
brought his rifle into play and emp-
tied the magazine with such effect
that three of the natives fell and the
others, meeting such a stout foe, bolt-
ed into the bush after vainly hurling
all their spears and spending what
cartridges were in the captured Win-
chester.
came right up. The native was ap-
parently following our tracks and was
already turning off into the bush just
where we had left the fence, when
Romanes recognized him as a native
he had seen at Turnbull’s station.
“Hullo there!" he yelled.
The black fellow stopped, saw the
strange and dilapidated white man
with a rifle in his hand, and turned
with a yell to bolt into the bush.
Romanes called to him to halt and
at the same' time used Turnbull’s
name, and dropped his rifle. At the
familiar name, and seeing. that he
was not to be shot instanter, the na-
tive stood still while Romanes walked
toward him and told him who he was.
The black accepted the peace over-
tures, and when Romanes learned
that he was making for the De Grey
station with the news from an out-
station that the warlike natives were
about, Romanes decided to trust him
and conducted him to where I was
lying.
He inspected my wounds with many
grunts and exclamations of concern.
He made a native plaster for my
wounds, composing it of leaves and
sticking it on with wet clay, over
which was bound the piece of shirt-
sleeve which Romanes had first used
to staunch the blood. Then with a
message to both the depot and his
employer, asking them to hasten to
our assistance and telling them where
they would find us, dead or alive, the
native was dispatched by Romanes.
Romanes then picked me up again,
and, footsore and exhausted as he
was, carried me another nine miles.
There for three whole days and
nights we lay, myself in a high state
of fever, happily oblivious to all that
happened, and Romanes incessantly
on the watch for blacks.
On the morning of the fourth day
after our arrival at the shed, relief
came. When poor Romanes, by-this
time half-insane as the result of his
hardships, realized that he actually
saw white men and that the hordes
of furious savages rushing on him
were merely the creation of his blood-
shot eyes, he broke down and wept.
Three days later I awoke to con-
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parative comfort at the De Grey de-
pot, where the surveying party’s cook
—a first-rate amateur surgeon—had
patched me up and doctored me in
great style from the outfit’s medicine
chest. I was still a helpless wreck,
but my brain was clearing, and when
I realized where I was I asked about
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Not knowing how many natives
there were, or whether there were
more than he had seen in the neigh-
borhood, Romanes wasted no time in
climbing into the tree, there to wait
until it was quite safe for him to
make a further move, as the supersti-
tious nature of the blacks would pre-
vent them from making any further
attack.
When he had spent a couple of
hours in his high perch Romanes qui-
etly slipped down and approached the
camp, for the main purpose of endeav-
oring to get a further supply of ammu-
nition, and to secure one of the cam-
els in order that he might get away
from the dangerous locality as soon
as he had collected anything of value
which the natives had left. He ex-
pected to find me dead as a doornail
and battered beyond recognition, but
he got the shock of his life when he
bent over me and found me breathing.
Thane was a big wound on the back
Romanes. They brought him to me
and it was harder work for that brave
fellow to answer my question as to
how I got safe in from Mount Bruce
than it had been for him to carry me
the best part of the journey.
It was a month before I was well
enough to travel down to Geraldton
and there convalesce, but before I
left I had the satisfaction of knowing
that Major and Toby had met with
their inevitable fate. They had “stuck
up” the Turkey Creek station, and,
on being beaten off by the stockmen.
ran into the arms of a police patrol,
who killed many of the natives, in-
eluding the ringleaders, and captured
the balance. When I was able to re-
port to headquarters a further piece
of intelligence pleased me. That was
that my rescuer, John Romanes, had
been promoted to the charge of an
inspector’s section and had been as-
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