LOST IN DESERT
FIVE DAYS’ STRUGGLE SAVED BY NATIVE HUNTERS JOHANNESBURG. Dec. 1. The amazing' story of tin Englishman’s five-day struggle across the unpacked wastes of the Kalahari Desert was revealed here to-day. Sergeant Campbell, who landed in South Africa recently and joined the Beehnanaland police force, was trekking on duty across the Kalahari Desert. He wandered from the wagon, and lost bis wav. A sandstorm covered over his footprints, and be trudged on during the night. The next morning there was no sign oi lito anywhoie, and be bad no idea where be was, but he continued plodding on, suffering agonies from hunger and thirst. He felt he could not risk resting lest ho would never wake up, and continued for four nights and five days, walking almost continuously. On the fifth day be felt he had come to the end, but be struggled onwards, an( ] at dusk stumbled oil a bushman’s settlement, where he collapsed. The bushmen nursed him to health, though for three days his tongue and throat were so swollen that lie could not swallow.
It was found later that he had walked through 250 miles of uncharted desert.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17181, 11 February 1930, Page 4
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193LOST IN DESERT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17181, 11 February 1930, Page 4
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