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Lost In the Bush extract   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1884... 1884 Lost In the Bush
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Escaped convict, Rufus Dawes, is washed up, exhausted, on the shore at Coal Head. Upon waking he finds the coal huts, and the provisions within, abandoned. He determines to take a supply of bread and meat with him, cross the desert in eighteen days, and reinvent himself as a free man. However, his plans go awry.

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  • Editor's note: (From 'His Natural Life.')

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