PROSPECTOR SAVED BY NATIVES
«►- FINE ACTION BY At STKAI.IAN ABO RI(; INKS BRISBANE. February 14. A party di' natives carried a starving prospector. A. Larsen. 47 miles from Ebaßoola Field to Port Stewart", swimming with him on a stretcher across flooded rivers, one of which was infested with crocodiles. Larsen was placed on a steamer at Port Stewart and taken to Cookiuwn, where he was admitted to hospital. He is expected to recover. An officer on the steamer said that when Larson was taken aboard he was merely a fleshless bodv. suffering from numerous sores. Floods had prevented his I'oUhu; supplies.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21090, 15 February 1934, Page 9
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