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LOST IN THE JUNGLE.

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SHIPPING APPRENTICE'S AMAZING EXPERIENCE-

SIX DAYS AND NIGETS.

HERO OF BORNEO STORY AT SINGAPORE.

made a a

NO ROOM FOR IDLERS.

LORD BIRKENHEAD'S WARRING.

A BARDER WORLD.

"My advice to you is to meet succoes, When it comes to you, like a gentleman. and to meet disaster like a man,"

said the Earl of" Birkenhend, Secretary for India, when he distributed the prizes at Birkenhead School, which he attended as a bay,

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The most sensational adventures of Marryat's seafaring heroes were rivalled ly the experiences of a young British ship's apprentice who spent six days and six nights lost in the jungle on a small island off-Boraco, and who arrived at Singapore on August 17th by the Anjengof those which there were; and when we

Lord Birkenhead continued: As you force your way in the hard bas left with struggle which the war Englishmen and Englishwomen, you will never know the pleasant, casy life wo knew in this country before the war, when there were hardly any taxes, and we spent hall our time in complaining had none of the misfortunes through which the ship of State must be steared

to-day.

A Straits Times representative found the hero of this story in the afficers' quarters at the Seamen's Institute. His

You can never know life or the world name is R. G. Ingram, and he missed as it was before the war. This is a hard spending his twenty-first bith-day in the truth, but one which should be learned. by the younger among you that you and jungle by two days. He is scarcely Eve, and our children after us, will live a feet high, slight of build, and seams for severely competitive life in a hard, com- from strong enough for the arduous ex-petitive world. periences he has undergone.

However, apart from the after-effects of a severe attack of malaria he is fit enough, and his skin, which was a mass of mosquito bites and scratches a few days ago, is now almost completely heal ed up..

Ingram's adventures commended on July 25th, when his abip, the Hain steamer Trevethee, was berthed at Cowie & Co.'s coaling station at "Sebatik, a small island off the east coast of Borneo, This station consists of nothing more than a clearing containing the mine, a cluster of native buts, and the manager's) house, and is surrounded by a wall of virgin jungle,

A Path in the Jungle.

About 2 p.m. Ingram went ashore for 3 walk. On the previous day he had wandered up a native path through the jungle and had lost his pipe, and he de- cided to go back and look for it.

He had gone into the jungle about 300 yards when he saw some wild fruit off the path.

He decided to take some of it back

to the ship. By the time he had reach ed the tree and turned round to go buck he was completely dost.

It appears that there was one main path used by natives going to the coaling station, and there were tracks branching of in every direction. Ingram did his best to find the main path, and wandered about for two hours, but sunset found him hopelessly lost.

The Habit of Industry.

It is all to the good that we are begin- ning to realise that we are living in a country which in the future will not be a country either comfortable or self-sup- porting for idlers. It will be a country in which workers may find it difficult to obtain even a means of subsistence.

Therefore, while you are young, culti vate the habit of industry. I regret that knowledge and experience of the value it I never du so. I can speak with the would have been to me bad I cultivated the habit when I was your age.

Si Days' Hanger.

for six days. On the last day he found Ingram had nothing whatever to eat

two small bird's eggs, but they were both addled. Fortunately, however, he had water. He drank from streams and wherever he could find it, and some of the stuff be drank was stagnant and

rank.

He could have found his bearings by the sun, but the sky was overcast most of the time, and he could not see the sun through the trees.

Only once, when he climbed a tree on hill, did he see the sea, and on the third day, he had an unpleasant experi-

ence.

He had climbed tree to get his where abouts when he heard the syren of the Trevethoe blow three times, but it was some distance away and although he set off in the direction of the sound he was. as unsuccessful as ever.

Ingram says that he felt no fear the whole time is hunger faded jato á „He took his misfortune philosophically | dull ache after the third day, and he and lay down with the idea of getting kept his spirits up by singing at the top some sleep.

of his voice, -The-Mosquitoes.

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Sleep, however, was out of the question." He was attacked by mosquitoes and ants in auch numbers that he had to keep moving throughout the night.

He spent the next six days and nights wandering about the jungle... He had. nothing on but a shirt, a pair of trousers, and a pair of shoes and he

had nothing in his pocket but four cigarettes and a box of matches which got wet and became useless.

Jaagle Noises

He is not cursed-with-an imaginative disposition and felt little alarm at night, although he heard all sorts of noises in the jungle. He had the sense to keep to crocodiles might have got him. the high ground at night, otherwise the

gramophone," he said, "and often I

One night I could swear I heard

thought I heard the chime of bells." Ad experienced oil prospector who was pre sent interpolated to say that he had heard similar acises in the jungle.

In that respect, therefore, he was un-Help at Last. luckier than the two planters who were lost for three days in Johore, for they were able to light a fire to keep the mos- quitces off at night.

ay Ingram says he had given up hope. By the time he was found on the sixth

He was completely off the game tracki With the idea of reaching, the seaying down in the undergrowth, wishing. and paths he had been following and was Ingram followed the courses of several streams, walking in the water, as the jungle on the banks was impenetrable, but every time he arrived at anim- passable mangrove swamp.

Crocodile Menace;

On the second day he came to a swamp which seemed to stretch as far as he could see, but he determined to erosa it and reach the sea if possible.....

He accordingly waded out with the water up to his knees, sounding the, bot- tom with a four-foot stick all the way, but after he had gone a hundred yards the stick suddenly sank out of sight and he hurredly rétraced his steps.

that one of the trees which he heard crashing down from time to time would fall upon him,...

Suddenly, something impelled him to shout, and he was answered. However he had been answered by the echo so many times that he took no notice.

Suddenly he heard voices and realis ed that rescuers were in fact at hand. He crashed through the jungle, until he came to a path where he met a party of five Dyaks, who shook him warmly by the hand (the thought of the 8200 reward. offered by the coal company in their minds), gave him some rice, and led him to their village three miles away. Leeches Take Toll.

The Dyaka then sent word to the manager of the coal station, who came in his launch, and it says much for

In venturing into this awamp Ingram was taking a serious risk, and it was perhaps his ignorance of tropical country which accounted for his nerve. At all events be calmly told his interviewer that grain's endurance that he laughed at he saw numerous croccdilas on the banks the idea of using the stretcher which had of the river and along the swamp, but

been provided. they appeared to take ne interest in him and slid off into the water when he ap- proached.

No Sensations,

however. He was almost naked, having He presented a remarkable spectacle, lost the whole of his shift and one shoe, while his trousers were mostly non- existent and his skin was covered with the marks of mosquitoes, leeches, and ants.

Ingram had no sensational adventure to relate. He seemed to.think that the fact of his blundering about in the pitch His feet, in particular, were in a darkness of the jungle for six nights in dreadful state owing to leeches, and it is succession was nothing remarkable. The doubtful-whether-he-could-have walked only sleep be got was occasional snatches much farther. in the day time, as the moment he stood still at night hordes of insects attacked

him.

The Adventure Eada,

The natives at the village showed him every kindness, and Ingram was much out of their houses and threw rice over perplexed when the Dyak women came him to scare away the evil spirits, as he learnt afterwards.

He frequently saw pig and monkeys, and almost stepped on pig at night several times, but he did not come across a single snake. Had he been cursed with a nervous disposition his ignorance of his circumstances would have worried The manager of the coal station, who him considerably, for he did not know had had fifty men out searching the that Sebatik was an island, and for all jungle, was overjoyed to find him and he knew he was wandering about thetook him to his bungalow. mainland of Borneo. He also did nob Tawau, where he caught the Kinabalu, The next day. Ingram went down to know that tigers are not found in for Sandakan, and went on to Singapore Borneo, and he was "prepared for any in the Kajang, having a severe bout of thing," as he puts it..

fever on the way.

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As a matter of fact Sebatik is about The Trevethor waited three days at 60 miles square and Ingram must have Sebatik and then resumed her voyage to crossed it at least once, as the only sign Portland, Oregon, the captain leaving a of human habitation he saw fishersum of money and Ingram's clothes be- man's but in a swamp-was eight miles hind. Ingram, who was 21 on August away from the coaling station on the sth, has, sent a cable to his home at hother aids of the island-

Torquay," and leaves for Home by the Macedonia this month.

(Continued on next colunin.)

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