“On searching my pockets I found that I had three matches and only three ... taking off my coat I held it around my head, and endeavoured to see the compass by the light of one of those matches”
- Thomas McIntyre

After he escaped on Kennedy’s horse, McIntyre spent the night on the run. After being thrown from the horse, he continued on foot. Sheltering in a large wombat hole until he thought it safe to continue, McIntyre miraculously found his way back to Mansfield. He arrived at 2 pm the following day, badly injured and suffering from exposure and shock.

“I have often regretted that I mentioned this place of concealment [the wombat hole] … it would have saved me from many humiliating and vexatious remarks. I thought that no man under the circumstances in which I was placed would object to thus hide himself”
- Thomas McIntyre