Mr R. Delebere Barker, in an articlo on omens and superstitions in tho "Reveille," published in Nairobi, British Bast Africa, states that years ago, when he was in tho New Zealand Alps, he was left in a hut in &010 charge of some thirty sheep dogs. One night aIL the dogs began to howl very dismally. Some spirit seemed s to .possess them, and they uttered most blood-curdling howls'-until midnight. As he was unable to sleep, ho walked end gazed at the surrounding rocky crags, and listened to the reverberating roar of the snow river that raced along; the stony bed of tho valley. Suddenly ho heard a shrill cry, evidently a human scream. It seemed to como from a hut across the river, where ap. old.'gold prospector lived. In the! morning tho old man's body was found, brutally mutilated, and his gold gone.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15868, 5 April 1917, Page 5
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