The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-07-28
LOST In THE GRASS.
Terrible Adventure Of am English
woman Among the UDIRnds
u Japan.

" ~~R~As
There is surely no country half 9
world away In which the occidental trav'
eler expects so much delight and SO lie
tie danger as in Japan, says Youths
Companion. Yet Mr.. Ernest Foxweu
has recently related tale Of terrible
adventure experienced In Japan by an
Engllshwoman but few days after her
arrival. She was staying at a little
country village among the hills, and
had gone out In the morning to gather
flowers. The path ran across the up
lands, where there is wild and lone
Iy stretch Of country extending for sew
eral miles; and the beauty of some wild
flowers growing in the tall grass led
her to leave the trail unthinkingly, and
press farther and farther into the wav-
ing tangle She was a short woman,
and 1t reached above her head.
'Tf had been foot taller" she said,
IN telling her story, Il should have
laughed and been out in minute or
two; but those few inches buried me
alive.
Almost instantly felt sick. as you
do at the beginning Of an earthquake;
for although / must have been quite
near the path, yet with the grass all
round above my head there was no
knowing what would happen. might
be going right away at that very mo-
ment, and the possibilities came like
a cbooIx hoIfouo locf NV bood a ,
once could not think, so kept NOV
ing one way, then another. But mere
ly pushing through this tall, tough grass
is very firing work, even If you are
on sloping ground and can judge where
you will come out; and when it is level
all round, the heart is taken out Of you
from the feeling that every step is prob
ably burying you deeper. 1t was like be-
ing drowned"
1t was not until sunset, after a whole
day in TIE blazing sun. without food or
water, constantly wandering, constant
ly pushing and tearing at stems so stiff
and serrated that they quickly made
the hands bleed, that she walked sud
denly out on to open ground and fell
fainting in a heap. When she recov-
cred, stars were shining, and she was
alone on an unknown mountainside
She slept from exhaustion. and the next
day followed a winding mountain tor
rent over rocky land, her shoes and
then her stockings worn from her feet,
only to find, at sundown, that 1t had led
her to a narrow gorge, without oha inch
Of foothold or shore. The stream dashed
through in a torrent that hopelessly
barred the way.
Light-headed with terror, hunger and
she crouched for a time in
despair Then she suddenly waded into
the stream and stood until after dawn
in water, while a rainstorm
pelted upon her from above Whim or
instinct. she believed that by the cool
rush and sting Of the water her reason
and strength we're preserved.
The next day she retraced her weary
way along the watercourse back to the
heights; thence. fixing anew the point
to which she must direct her steps, she
made her way back to civil
lization. When at length she reeled
INTO the hut of kindly Japanese wom-
an. she had been four days lost without
food and had walked until her feet |
were SO torn and inhamed it was i
thought she must have them amputated;
but she fortunately regained her health |
lncripDled