country for 'colonial experience'." Around a year after his arrival, Morant first settled in outback Queensland. After about a year, he adopted the name Harry Harbord Morant, claiming to be a member of the British nobility and the estranged son of Admiral Morant. During the next fifteen years, he drifted around Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales. He gained a reputation as a boozer, a womaniser, a bush poet and as an expert horseman. He was one of the few who managed to ride the notorious buckjumper Dargin's Grey in a horse race that became legendary. Morant worked in a variety of occupations; he reportedly traded horses in Charters Towers, then worked for a time for a newspaper at Hughenden during 1884. He then relocated around for some time until he found work as a bookkeeper and storeman in the Esmeralda cattle station. Morant then worked for several years as an itinerant drover and horse-breaker, as well as writing his popular bush ballads, becoming friendly with famed Australian bush poets Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, and Will H. Ogilvie. The bond between Morant and Ogilvie was quite strong, and subject of a book Breaker's mate: Will Ogilvie in Australia. Ogilvie went to write at various times: Ode to 'The Breaker' in bandages (1898), after a horse-riding accident When The Breaker is booked for the south H. Morant 'Breaker' leaves with S.A. Contingent 'Glenrowan' to 'The Breaker' Harry Morant To the memory of Harry Morant (circa 1902) Enlistment In 1899, Morant enlisted with the Second Contingent of the South Australian Mounted Rifles at Adelaide. According to a 13 January 1900 report of his enlistment by the Adelaide Advertiser, Morant, like all other volunteers, read and signed the following declaration: We the undersigned, do hereby solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that we will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Queen Victoria, her heirs and successors according to law, and that we will faithfully severally serve as members of the South Australian Volunteer Contingent enrolled for service in South Africa, and we hereby severally bind ourselves from the 17th day of October 1899, until discharged to be subject to the provisions of the Army Act in force for the time being in Her Majesty's Army, in like manner as if we had been severally and duly enlisted and attested for Her Majesty's Army for general service, and as if the said South