The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-29

though in the mountains of the moon Yet
We could not give it mp so. and tried TO sum-
mon up fresh courage as troubles appeared
to thicsen around us. 50 we turned the
raft around, ard roled in silence back
toward the place W here we had entered this
last lake. We had gone about mile when
we heard the sound OF a gun, quickly fol-
lowed by second report. No round was
ever so sweet 70 me as that. We halloed az
loud as we could good many times, but
could get no response. We kept
our poles going quite lively, and had gone
about halt mile when l called attention to
what / thought was smoke curling up
among the trees by the side of hill. NV
own eyesight began to fail very much, and
felt afraid to trust my dull senses in a
matter so vitality important. La-Mountain
scrusinized the shore very closely, and said
be thought it was smoke, and that he be-
iieved there was also birch canoe on the
shore below In a few minutes the blue
smoke rolled Enthusiastically above the tree
tops, and we felt that we were savedl With
the ends of poles we padded the raft across
the arm OF the lake, here, perhaps, three
fourths Of mile wide, steering for the
canoe. 1t proved TO bs large one, evidently
an Indians. / balloed-
NOISE WAS HEARD
inside and noble looking Indian cane 10
the door. / eagerly asked him if he could
speak French, ss L grssped his out stretched
A1Hhs It's nc D4iuos anu EAlsD,
tO0!' He drew me into the cabin, and there
I saw the head OF the party, a noble hearted
Scotchman, named Angus Cameron. L inn
mediatsly told my story; that we had come
in there with balloon. were lost, and mad
boon over four days without ;oOd--eagerly
demanding TO know where We were. Ina
CINE my surprise when he said we were $50
miles due north of Ottawa, near 800
miles from Watertown, to reach
which would require more than
4O0 miles Of travel, following the streams
aud roads. We were in wilderness large
rs three states like Pennsylvania, extend
ing from Lake Superior on the west to- the
ST. Lawrence on the east, and rom Ottawa
on the south, to the Arctic Circle. Thus,
after tour days wandering in the wilderness
they were discovered. When Haddock re-
skin peeled of with the stockings. His
ieet bad become parboiled by the continued
soaking of four days and nights, and were
not cured for three months. In due time they
reached home. H2ddock had been given up
by all except his wife. He felt cheap and
foolish about the whole thing, thinking he
had been foolish, but the people regarded
him as hero. The account thus closes:
when we first descended TO near the earth,
and saw lights and heard the dogs barking
%. 81, we should have landed. But we were
un willing to land at night in a deep wood,
even though we knew that Inhabitants were
near by, and we thought it hest to pick out
a better place. This was our error, and il
came near being fatal one to us-it was
certainly so 10 the balloon. In trying to
hud our better place. I'd land, we were up
longer than we supposed, and as we were
travelling in a current that bore us off TO the
northward at the rate OF 100 miles an hour,
we soon reached point beyond the confines
of civilization"