A Life Saved By Wings
An African near . Bulawayo was saved from drowning the other way in an unexpected way. He was acting as one of the bearers for a party of Europeans who had been out duck-shooting, and he carried 17 ducks, which wero part of the bag. Instead of . crossing the Khami River with the others by the suspension bridge, he decided to wade across, but the water had risen and he was carried away by the current. From the bridge the other men saw the African being swept downstream. He disappeared, and it seemed certain that he had been drowned.
Then a surprising thing happened. The rushing water opened the wings of the ducks, the man came again to the surface, and the onlookers saw that he was being kept afloat by the mass of outspread wings. A Mr Beadle swam to midstream, and. after a hard struggle brought the African safely to the bank.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12824, 19 August 1939, Page 6
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