RESCUE OF AUSTRALIAN PROSPECTOR

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 13

RESCUE OF AUSTRALIAN PROSPECTOR

4> LIVING ON RAW MEAT BRISBANE, February 20. A party of prospectors arriving at Mount Isa from Western Australia by car told the story of the rescue of an old prospector named Baynes, whom they found wandering in 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 pack horse 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 a second dead horse, from the rump of which slices of meat had been cut. The blackboys who were leading were suddenly fired on and one was wounded in the leg. Two of the prospectors went to the blacks' rescue and they e,\so came under a fusillade of bullets. Next day the party found the old man lying under rocks. He was very weak and his water supply was exhausted. He said he bad been living on the borsVs flesh. He explained that he fired because he thought he was being attacked by hostile natives.