Beginning in the streets of Auckland, the story moves to the Queensland frontier, where settlers and the Native Mounted Police are pushing Aboriginal people off their land by force. Vogan, a journalist, wove a mystery and adventure plot around what he saw as an official system of killing, describing caves, scrub and outback stations along the way.
A rare protest novel of 1890 against frontier violence in Australia, though its own racial language is of its time. Download the free EPUB.