The weekly messenger., 1889-06-15

to fall and we haited on leuSe Oh rocA'
utterly worn out.
The storm increased and in a short
time was at its height. The rain
came down IN torrents, completely
dranchirg Us. The Eahtning with
binding las hes played all around, Kissing
and Hum ning for an instant the awful
grandeur OF the Gene, while the thunder
nea'cd and era he'd overhead, each craS
and wall Of rock cchoing the sound and
increasing il an hundred-fold.
We had thrown our ri 'os away, afraid
that the lightning would strike them,
and stood waiting for the sto-m to
ab te VI hen We resumed our decent
we were trembling with cold in every
limb. The air, which was warm enough
before, was now piercingly cold and the
wind drove snow and bits of ice against
our faces with binding force.
went first, and for long time neither
of us spoke. only wien a particularly
dangerous place was crossed l gave the
warning "Look to tine right" or ''To
the left " as the case might be.
Siege led the way when | was tired,
and thus we proceeded with greatest
caution, as q false step would have been
Amos. ertain death, till we got to more
level ground.
Here We again encountered thickets of
knie-holz. We were already congratu-
lat;ng oureelves ON having got the worst
over. when we were suddenly stopped by
precipice or .'Wand,r down which it
would have been impossible for goat
to 20. 1t was a sheer descent Of at least
eighty feet.
This was Il dreadful disappointment.
We walked along the edge for some way,
but as far as we could see the Wand ex-
tended for miles. had already thrown
myself on the ground and had given M
all hopes Of life, when shout from Siegel
who had gone on little way, made me
once more spring to my feet.
| ha7telCd TO him. He vas standing
over arrow hoe in the rock almost
hidden ~ b" hes Of the kne holz
''Nr afe saved, We are saved,' he
cried Ie explained to me how, when 1
had given up in despair, he suddenly
that he remembered the place
we were .d. and had remembered, too,
that L it were indeed the part of The
mountain he supposed it to be, there
was 4 .ircuar ho n the rock forming
the Wand by wh en- the cham0is hunters
sealed this otherwise inaccessible place.
He had gone on, had found the opening.
and fearful of losing the spot had stood
over il and cal ell till came.
We slid safety down this chimney Ike
hole, which Is not muoh more than
twenty feet in depth. and easily descend
ing the lower part of the Wand, which
is here much broken, arrived, famjshed
and half frozen. at 10 O'clock at night,
at a woodman's hut Siegel knew of in
the valley below. Here we obtained
warmth and shelter.
Three of the wOodmen Immediately
started up the mountain and returned in
few hours with poor Franz, who was
yerv much exhausted, not SO much from
cold-as Gotting had contrived to light
ire, aud they had provisions-as from
loss OF blood.
once asked Siegel what he would
have done if ne had not found that open
ing. eve should,' he said, ''have
struck our alpenstocks into the ground,
and have walked round them all the
night to keep OF sleep. whichif it con-
quered us would, of course, have been
fatal. If we lived till day broke we
should have tried to find our way back
to the others"
Whether we We're likely to succeed in
SO doing, cold, hungry AMI exhausted as
we were, the reader may Judge.
AS for Franz, ne completely recovered
from his wound, and l have hunted
many a time with him since that memo
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