The Trooper Police of Australia. A Record of Mounted Police Work in The Commonwealth From The Earliest Days of Settlement

Published by London Andrew Melrose, 1911. 1st Edition. 431 pages. Very good plus green cloth covers gilt with insignia on the front board. Internally very good with a frontis and numerous black and white ills. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Some heavy foxing especially to the page edges.

Australian native police were specialised mounted military units consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers under the command of white officers appointed by colonial governments. These units existed in various forms in colonial Australia during the nineteenth and, in some cases, into the twentieth centuries.

History of force; work of black police and trackers, comments on help given by natives to force; notes on early contacts, depredations & clashes; Chap. 16; Briefly summarizes theory of origin, weapons, shelters, body decorations, cave paintings (Kimberleys), magic; approximate number of natives throughout Australia.