FRIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE OF A QUEENSLAND BOY.
T ♦ e Brisbane, March 21. Jj A tale of great endurance cornea ut from Winton. During the late floods d a boy named Fleetwood was left in [. a waggonette surrounded by water. t A man who went to his assistance was apparently drowned, and the if boy, finding the water rising, took o refuge in a tree, where he remained J for seven days without food, sleep, ' l or clothing, having taken his clothes 'J off in order to swim to his place of ic >' efu g° . e Whenthoiloods receded,he walked il a mile and a half, swimming two i- creeks by the way. In his exhausted condition, it took the poor lad a is whole day to perform this short >r journey, io While in the tree ho had to maiy )e tain a constant watch to keep snakes out of it.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4982, 22 March 1895, Page 2
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149FRIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE OF A QUEENSLAND BOY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4982, 22 March 1895, Page 2
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