RAW HORSE FLESH

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 111, 20 February 1935, Page 5

RAW HORSE FLESH

PLIGHT OF A PROSPECTOR. TIMELY RESCUE IN AUSTRALIA. HIS WATER SUPPLY EXHAUSTED (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. A party of prospectors who arrived at Mount" Isa from Western Australia by car told a story of the rescue of an old prospector named Baynes, whom they found wandering ill the Kimberley Ranges some weeks ago, and who had lived on raw meat he had cut from his. dead horse. The party first .found a dead packhorse and the tracks of a second horse leading into the hills. , Enlisting the aid of friendly aboriginals, the tracks were followed for 10 miles, when the party came on the second dead horse, from the rump of which slices of meat had been cut. The blaqk 'boys who were leading were suddenly fired on, one being wounded in the leg. Two of the prospectors went to the rescue of the blacks and they also came under a fusillade of bullets. Next day. the pa.rty found the old man lying under some rocks. He was very weak. His water supply was exhausted. He said he had been living on horse's flesh. He explained that he fired because he'thought he was beattacked by hostile natives: