PROSPECTOR RESCUED

Southland Times, Issue 22512, 21 February 1935, Page 7

PROSPECTOR RESCUED

WANDERING IN RANGES. LIVED ON HORSE FLESH. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Brisbane, February 20. A party of prospectors arriving at Mount Isa from Western Australia by car told a 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 the dead pack horse and tracks of a second horse leading into the hills. Enlisting the aid of friendly aboriginals, they followed the tracks for ten miles, when the party came on a second dead horse, from the rump of which slices of meat had been cut. The black boys 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 also came under a fusillade of bullets.

Next day the party found the old man lying under some rocks. He was very weak and his water supply, was exhausted. He said he had been living on horse’s flesh. He explained that he fired because he thought he was being attacked by hostile natives.