Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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BUSH-RANGER OUT OF LUCK. ADVENTURE WITH A HORSE-COLLAR. 399 to protect it from the bush-rangers, and of course a heavy charge Avasmade for the service. Various devices were adopted to foil the rascalsby those who undertook to transport their own treasure. Men concealed their gold in their clothing or about their wagons,and one smart fellow put nearly a hundred ounces inside a horse-collar,which was worn by the single horse drawing a dray containing a fewbundles of clothing and other insignificant things. He got along all right for the first two days, and on the thirdbegan to feel entirely safe. While he was jogging along the road hewas overtaken by a man who said the police were after him on account
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BUSH-RANGERS AT WORK. of a fight with a drunken fellow at a way-side inn. He said his horsewas much jaded, and he would give the stranger ten sovereigns to ex- change. The bargain Avas quickly made, as the animals appeared to be ol 400 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. about equal value. The miner unfastened his horse from the dray, andbegan to unharness it. As he did so the stranger, quick as a flash, seizedthe collar, threw it around the neck of his own steed, sprung on itsback, where the saddle still remained, and was off like the wind. Thats all I wanted, mate, said he, as he rode away. He hadsomehow learned the miners scheme for carrying his gold, and playedthis elaborate game to rob him. Speaking of bush-rangers, said another, did you ever hear ofOliver, the Terror of the North V Some had heard of him and others had not, so the story was calledfor. There was once a bush-ranger of that name in the north of Queens-land, said the narrator, and he had been sticking up people in the

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