WRECKED PROSPECTORS.
jiDVENTTTRES OF SURVIVORS. ar CaH*—Pr«» Aawoiation— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PORT 3>AItWIN, April 12. The two missing members of tho oil prospecting party, which was wrecked at.Point Rearce, were Crampton, the* owiler of-t&e lugger, and Feraie, a drilling erpert. They were last eeen swimming in. oi tempestuoua sea. There were :Sve survivors, including two Europeans named Sands and Bestwick. They had.' thrilling experiences, being cast ashore at the foot of towering cliffs which they, managed to scaleThey were without clothes, bootej or food. They met a tribe of wild, nercolooking natives, who, however K treated them well, and supplied tlhem with food. They then smarted to walk to Port Keats/6Q miles distant. The iourney occupied three days. Their only food was shell-fell and a bag of-flour found on the beach, They were terribly tortured, in their. nude condition, by inyriads of mosquitoes and other insects. Failing to Sands walked hack tovPoiiit;Peiircc : .'. Bestwick. was too exhausted to make the journey. Sands induced: the dripper of a. Malay launch to .return and rescue Bestwick.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17429, 13 April 1922, Page 9
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