Man Tracks

With the Mounted Police in the Australian Wilds

Ion Idriess

• Publisher: ETT Imprint
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781923205451
• eBook ISBN:
  9781922473363
• Edition: 0
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies

First published in 1935, and now in its 24th edition.'This new Idriess book tells of stirring episodes in the pursuit of lawbreakers in the primitive lands. Every chapter is authentic. Patrols through the Kimberleys, the wild Fitzmaurice River country, the nor'-west of Western Australia, the Northern Territo, and Central Australia; each incident recorded from the lips of the pursuers and pursued whether white, black or brown. Here are given for the first time the romantic stories of Nemarluk and Minmara, Tuckiar and Mepara, Chugulla, Tiger, Moodoprish, Natchelma - Aboriginal leaders so much lately before the public eye. Here, too, will be found details of the spearing of Constable McColl, the ambushing of Hemming's patrol, the killing of the Japanese of the luggers' Ouida, The Myrtle, Olga and The Raff, the spearing of Stephens and Cook, of Tetlow, Nichols, Renouf, Traynor and Fagan. The inner story of the most intriguing murder in the rugged fastnesses of northern South Australia, the big mail robbery on the little Centralian railway... The book contains remarkable stories of the methods of aboriginal trackers, given exactly as they worked on each case. Nothing like these tracking chapters have ever been attempted in book for before.' - Port Macquarie News, 1935.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• With the Trackers
• Foreword
• Contents
• 1. Half-Caste Joe
• 2. Joe’s Last Stand
• 3. The Desert
• 4. The Black Camel
• 5. The Silence of the Hills
• 6. The Ivory Witness
• 7. The Phantom Rider
• 8. “You no talk!”
• 9. Jacarrie
• 10. Jacarrie’s Last Fight
• 11. Where the prospector sleeps
• 12. The Tale of the Tracks
• 13. Seeking Moodoorish
• 14. The Night Attack
• 15. Graham’s Second Bullet
• 16. A Race against time
• 17. Nemarluk
• 18. The “Black Intelligence”
• 19. Under the Milkwood-Tree
• 20. Seeking the Tracks of Nemarluk
• 21. Nemarluk’s Visiting-Card
• 22. Crossing the Victoria
• 23. The Trap in Nemarluk’s Camp
• 24. Two Traps for Nemarluk
• 25. The Crocodiles and The Raft
• 26. Marboo
• 27. The Boadicea of Arnhem Land
• 28. King Wongo’s Spearmen
• 29. The Attack on the Japanese
• 30. Tiger
• 31. The Capture of Nemarluk
• 32. The Sea Wanderers
• 33. The Death of Mccoll
• 34. The Law of the Assagai
• 35. The Escape of Nemarluk
• 36. Bul-Bul Mistrusts Chugulla
• 37. The Arrest of Tiger
• 38. The Lone Patrol
• 39. The Flight of Nemarluk
• 40. The Arrest of Nemarluk