A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1735, 10 May 1888, Page 4

A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE.

A remarkable and almost incredible adventure is reported bj • Rosshire correspondent. While Christina M‘lvor, a middle-aged woman, belonging to the parish of Lochbroom, was on her way to Kinlochewe, she accidentally stumbled and fell over one of the many precipices that skirt the margin of Loch Maree. A tree growing from a cleft in the rock miraculously intercepted her fall, and prevented her plunging into the deep waters beneath. 'Jo this tree the woman clung with the grip of despair until she had partially recovered from the stunning effects of her dreadful fall. Beneath her was a sheer rock washed by the waters of the lake; above, a rock impossible to climb; and to add to the misery of the poor woman’s situation, she became painfully sensible to the fact that her right leg was broken below the knee. The place was miles away from the nearest house. In this painful extremity she noticed a projecting ledge close by the tree, and by efforts which can be more easily imagined than described she managed to crawl or drag herself to this place of comparative safety. The pain of the fractured limb, intensified by her efforts, was frightful, and she lay quite exhausted and exposed to the elements, having lost her shawl in the fall. In this perilous and exposed condition she remained from the Saturday till the following Monday afternoon —two days and three nights —without food or shelter of any kind, slaking her feverish thirst by water that trickled from the rocks overhead, and which she caught in her boot. On the M onday she noticed a boat passing, and,using her littleremaining strength, she managed to attract the attention of its occupants to her dangerous position. By skilful manoeuvring on the part of the fishermen the poor woman was got into the boat, taken to Poolewe, and i hence sent to Ullapool, where she now lies under the care of the parish doctor.