JUNGLE MERRY-GO-ROUND
SYDNEY, April 3. Wlicn a partv of seamcu from Australia's newost frigate, ll.M.A.S. Baravoo, wero put asliore for exercisos in dcnsely-wooded mangrove «wamps at 1'ort Essiiigton, 120 miles nortli-cast oi Darwin, one of llicm, Ordinary-Scanian A. Terry, of Svdney, becamc 'separated and was soon lost. lie failed lo return to camp tlmt night, and a search party, including two black trackers, went to iind him. Terrv returued to tho camp by himself Ihe following cvening very oxhausted, after strnggling for 24 hours through the swamps. That night throc members of the search party failed to return lo camp. The two black trackers set out carly the next morning to lind them. The thrce"niissing mcu, foolsore and weak, struggled back to the main camp late 011 the same night, but there was "no sign of the black trackers. So. Ihe following morning, a third search party went to find tlie black trackers. It soon caught up with them. They were neitlier footsore nor wearv. They had found the tfacks .of the three men, campcd.on their tracks that rtight, and continued the search at dawn, and were heading straight back to the camp when found.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 April 1946, Page 2
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