Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. Aus.) lit. or fig., lost, disorientated.

1900		‘The Wayback Family’ in Sun. Times (Sydney) 16 Dec. 5/1: [I] started on my own to find the Emu Coffee Palace; but I’ve got bogged somehow, so I reckon to make back to the Railway, and take a fresh start.
1906		A. Train Prisoner at the Bar 287: Mr. Wellman [...] is likely to lead his witness a merry dance until the latter is finally ‘bogged’ in a quagmire of absurdities.