LOST IN THE BUSH.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 7

LOST IN THE BUSH.

♦ Mr Frank Stewart Bobbie, who was lost in the bush at Shannon for four days last week, being discovered on Friday suffering severely from the effects of exposure, is now making satisfactory progress towards recovery, states the Manawatu "Standard." He went out on Monday morning last to ; secure a wild pig which he and his . •brother had killed in the bush on the \ ranges the previpus. day. "I did not i get the pig," said Mr Robbie, "but i went with after another one, j which I killed' shortly -afterwards. A i deuse fog settled down, and when I out for home I could not get my bear- j ings,' as the sun was obscured. Con- j sequently, I lost my way." Continu- j ing, his narrative, Mr Robbie said that, added to the ordinary dangers of being "bushed" were the disabilities of the extreme cold, the thick blanket of fog which rendered the visibility nil, and the wetness of the undergrowth. The locality where he lost his way was only,a little below the.snow line, and snow fell also in the bush during the time when he was endeavouring to niake his way out. The country aiso is very rough in this locality, and in placea the undergrowth is very thick, rendering progress slow and most difßcult. On Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday I kept on in an endeavour to reach the open," said Mr Robbie, "but on the Tuesday I did not move, 'it was eo wet. Each night I slept in the bush, and it was Thursday before I got my bearings and could definitely 6trike out for the open country. Tlfcer-e -were pigeons izi tb« bush, ii&'b I had no gnn, and it waa impossible in any case to make a fixe. On the Friday morning I was cra-wong up a slope '■ going very slowly t when the searchers j found n».'