A WOMAN'S ADVENTURE AT LOCH MAREE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 213, 30 July 1887, Page 3

A WOMAN'S ADVENTURE AT LOCH MAREE.

A rkmarkable and almost incredible adventure is reported by a Ros^-shirc correspondent. While Chris-tina Mcl\or, a middle-aged woman, belonging to the parish of Lochbroom, was on her May to Kinlochewe a few days ago, she accidentally stumbled and fell over one of the many precipices that skirt the margin of Loch Maree. A tree growing fi om a clef h in the rock miraculously intercepted her fall, and prevented her plunging into the deep waters beneath. To 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 dark 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 of 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 1 ledge close by the tree, and by efforts which can be more easily imagined than described she managed to crawl or drag herself to tins place of comparative safety. The pain in the fractured limb, intensified by her effort^, Mas frightful, and she lay quite oxhansted 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— three days and two 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 Monday she noticed a boat passing, and, using her little remaining 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. lowered into the boat, taken to Poolewe, and thence sent to Ullapool, where she now lies under tho care of tho parish doctor.