The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-07-21

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Yafa-gtary OF 1Eee Alventn FIN.
iron the Ma CEfl soTaiss July li.f rs 6
A Young lady, Miss Matilda steen, left
San Francisco six or seven we ekssago TO
ioin her brothers, svhe arc eng al ed In
ma king tsn-bark In the neigh borh0od or the
Carols river. Point Arenas 6end oeiho
comfy. She had been living NTH them
cred that sse had forgotten to put kn ives
IN their mnch.hasket,, 20 she detcrn fned
to take them to The spDt " here her bro.
thers sWcrei@ork'ng. She dtdso with great
difficulty, che forest being like those of
many parts Of oregon aud British Colum.
hia- a dense mass Of underground. ., i'm
mense fallen legs, &C., aud very mountafn-
otis country. She then started to- return,
one OF her brothers. Offering to accompany
her. This she declined. saying that as,she
had found her way In. she surely could get
out again, II was at this time she gos lost.,
when I, first found was lost was badly
frightened. Iran. through the brush as fast
az I could, bowling at every step, but after
a while l cooled down and confined my 10.
conotion to fast walk. About an hour.
should think, after 4eft my brother / heard
the sound Of an axe, and haiiooed 20 the
chopper. and plainly heard him answer. If
! had kept on hallnoing, and had remained
where [ was, the chopper would soon have
come to me, as have learned since got
ih, but thought that could surely follow
Alas I was following the echo. ! was go
ing down deep canon, and the sound died
away and was left alone. Great God |!
alone in such place For q while
my very sight grew dim--all things
reeled around me. What would be-
come of me il should never find my way
out? All alright thought flashed through
nay mind-a thought which gave me joy in
an instant: there is q God who Is able to
fectly resigned to nv fate. feeling that if it
was GODS good pleasure to save me, He
would do so in good time. All day tray
elled, now pulling myself up steep, brushy
mountains. now rolling, sliding, tumbling
down into the deepest canons I ever be-
held. Sometimes the mountains were SO
steep that it was utterly impossible for. me
to walk down them, and was forced to
wrap my dress around my feet and ac-
tually slide down on my back. The first
night found me on the side of mountain,
about halfway to the top. / looked around
me to find a level place where could rest
! through the night, but no such place could
/ find, so Just placed my feet against q
| tree to keep from sliding down the noun
tain, and In this attitude remained during
the night. Occasionally would wake, and
whenever awoke / would halloo at the
top of my voice, thinking that perhaps
some one might hear me. Vain hopel i
had no fear Of any wild beast.
AS soon as morning dawned I resumed
my toilSome journey up, up, up, down,
down, down. The bright sun seemed to
greet me with smile, and beckoned me to
him as he doomed grandly above the distant
mountains, and / wondered whether his
bright face looked upon another human
being in all the wide, wide world so utterly
lost, lost as poor me. The second day [
came to two or three mountains covered
With chapperel and white thorn, and was
obliged to crawl through it like snake.
When I would get through, all torn and
bleeding. / would Hinvoluntarily exclaim,
Us I looked behind me, how in the
name of God did ever get through
that AS was going down mountain I
around, discovered that it was q deer fol.
lowing me, and when Ipicked up stick
and threw at it, it ran off, and saw it no
more. tried often, the first day, to re-
trace my steps. but every time / failed,
finding by shred of my dress, a broken
twig, or something or other, that [ was
only going round and round. I have been
asked why didn't follow the streams, as,
if | could. they would have led me
out. But I could not; there were SO
many large logs and rock in them that it
was impossible. L had q gold watch and
bunch of keys with me, and as an evidence
that didn't go crazy, rs many supposed l
would, didn't lose either. ] deeply re-
GREETED that didn't have the key Of the
watch with me. On Thursday, about
noon, I suddenly came out to trail, and,
like Robinson Crusoe, saw a human track!
The track gladdened my heart as never a
track did before. / followed the track and
saw q fence, and next house Thank
God! I am saved When got close to
the house stopped and ballooed, and some
gentlemen came out and invited me in. !
went in and told them that was the lost
woman. They said that they had
heard of my being lost the night
before, and We're on the lookout for me.
They prepared some food for me, and
were very much afraid I would eat too
much. l ate very little. Somehow was
not hungry. When I had finished my meal
[ told them that wanted to go home, but
they would not hear of it. They said " as
too much fatigued to attempt 1t that night,
and one Of them got on horse and went
to the Garcia mill to bear the news. One Of
nv brothers came out that evening as soon
as he heard the news, and / rode home on
Friday morning.