LOST IN JUNGLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 10

LOST IN JUNGLE

LONDON GIRL HOME BIG GAME ROUND TENT LONDON, May 28. Miss Audrey Scholes, slender, dark* lunred. 21-year-old London girl, who was lost' with iier brother iu the iSyasahuid jungle, has come homo to marry the man of iier clioice. For three months, brother and sister, with a motor ear and two tents, and armed only with an obsolete Mauser rifle, travelled hundreds of miles in a country whine white women are mikllOWii. •' Lieutenant A. G. Oliver, of the battle-cruiser IJood, is my hauccu, site said. “Three years ago, wlien 1 went to Africa, i said i might come back to marry him." ■She .smiled and added, ‘ And here i am. Miss Seholea' brother, who shared her African is a 24-year-old Kenya larnier. "We started out. in a charcoal-burning motor car with the intention of seeing tile. Victoria Falls—and we ended by being cm oh from civilisation for "three months, in a country swarming with big game. "We were warned when wo.left M/.iba that the roads were impassable. Believe me they were. For three months we struggled along; .sometimes at the rate of only a .■■. few yard's a. day. ’ ' “Wo had to cut. trees to make roads. We lived on mealies and native pumpkin,'' “A bar of salt served as money. Natives considered themselves handsomely rewarded if they were given a teaspoonful of salt. "The worst thing of ail were the lions and leopards. “We could; hear them snuffling around our tents at night. My brother slept with his feet outside, his tent. One night a leopard wrecked the tent. lVfy brother pulled his feet inside just in time. We could not shoot, for we had no lights and we dared not use our rifle. “Wo reached the first white outpost, just before airplanes were, about to be sent out seeking us."