OPERATION IN CAVE
SOUTH AFRICAN GUIDE INJURED A thrilling story of rescue and hardship on the freezing slopes of the Drakensburg Mountains, the western boundary af Natal, has reached Durban. A native mountain guide was on his way down the mountain to the National Park Hostel when a sleeping-bag, fell from the pack horse and rolled to the cliff edge. The native tried to recover it, but the tuft of grass on which he was standing gave way. .After a short, sheer drop he rolled about 350 feet down a steep slope over boulders and rocks. The guide’s native companion climbed down to where the guide was lying badly injured and unconscious. Unable to move him, he made a small shelter with a blanket and hurried off for help. ’ A woman doctor who was visiting the hostel volunteered to join the rescue party, and that night performed a a successful operation on the injured man in a deserted cave high up the mountain. An old tin was used for disinfecting the instruments and the operation was performed by the flickering light of candles. The native is now recovering.,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 10
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188OPERATION IN CAVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 10
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