LOST IN THE BUSH.

Patea Mail, 2 June 1881, Page 4

LOST IN THE BUSH.

Andrew Jonson, whose miraculous recovery from the bush has been previously published, writes to the Mauawatn Times :—I am very much obliged to the men who went to look after mo, also I am glad that the Government authorities did not bother themselves about me, for I travelled too quickly for them to retake me in the bush. I left the Hit of Miss Company’s diggings on the Ist of May, 1881,. and had no matches, no tobacco, and no blankets; neither had la morsel of food, and had to cl’inb a rata tree and remain there for two hours to escape from the wild cattle. Then it came dark, and for the first fourteen days I was wet through, and I marked my name on several trees in case any person might come that way. On the 23rd I crossed the Manawatu at about 4.30 p.m., there being about four feet of water in the river at the time, and shortly after that I reached J. Jacobsen’s camp, about 4 or 5 miles from Woodville, on Mr Ormond’s property. I ate nothing from the Ist-to the 7th, but then I commenced to eat the fern tops,”