Arizona republican., 1891-04-28

history of adventure, and strangely enough they have had faithful chronicler One of the scouts was boy named Henry, and late in life he wrote out story of the ex- periences of himself and comrades They fared very we'll until they reached the carrying place between the Kennebec and Dead rivers. At this point the party di- vidod, the weaker members remaining be- hind. the stronger pushing on. They were reduced to two meals day, consisting of half biscuit and half an inch square of raw pork. Their only shelter from pelting storms of rain and sleet was the foliage of evergreens. When they had discovered the headwaters of the Claudiere they turned back to carry tidings to the main column. Their food supply was down to a solitary pork ration each, and after a long search for game a duck was killed. The pork and duck boiled together made a broth that furnished supper for the party of ten; the pork bits were eaten for break fast and the duck was parceled out, hunter fashion. to stand between them and starva tion The duck all disappeared the first day, and on the second they travelled with out a morsel. The next day at sundown, after forty eight hours fast, moose deer was shot, and the event was hailed as sal vation for the furnishing and fainting men, whose powers were fast giving way.
 When Arnold learned from these scouts that all was favorable ahead, he sent word to the rear columns, under Greene and Enos, to hurry forward and join him. Enos had already turned back, carrying the lions share of the provisions with him. The advance nearly perished from hunger before reaching the French settlements, for Arnold found the route longer and more difficult than he had expected. At the close of October the meat ration gave out, and the flour, when divided up, gave but five pints to each man. This was baked into cakes in the ashes of the camp fires. In desperation Arnold selected a body of men and hastened on ahead to procure and send back food. He sailed rapidly down the foaming tide of the Chaudiere and lost three boats on the rocks at the end of a twenty mile run. With six men and two boats he pressed on, and on Oct. 30 sighted the first house. Without loss of time he sent back beeves and flour to the soldiers actu- ally furnishing, but still heroically strug- gling forward. After Arnold left camp two pet dogs were slaughtered, and their flesh and the broth made by boiling their bones were eagerly devoured. Roots dug out of the sand were eaten raw, and brooches and moccasins of deerskin and moose hide were boiled to make broth, and also charred on the coals and then eaten. Of course all human nature could not hold out under this. Men thought that death was preferable, and so thinking gave up the struggle. In such cases death came in a few minutes
 Arnold supply of provisions reached the column in the nick of time. With them came caution to the head attachments to partake sparingly and send something to those in the rear. The French people along the river supplied the wants of the soldiers without stint, and halt was made at Ser tigan to close up the ranks and prepare for an orderly advance During the last few days in the wilderness the men had been permitted to travel at will, with the under standing that all should assemble at the French settlements On Nov. the troops began to struggle into the advance camp, and by the sth the companies and battal- ions had been reorganized. There were still seventy-ive miles to make before reaching Quebec, yet on Nov. lSArnold had his com. mand on the banks of the St. Lawrence, OppOSlte tue Cllg. HIS JToODS UuInDertu III effective men about 650. The English, warned by the traitorous messenger who had been sent from the wilderness to com municate with friends of the patriots, had burned all the boats on the American side, and Arnold had to gather canoes from the surrounding country to ferry his soldiers across.
 On the night of the 18th the leader and 800 men eluded the British sentinel vessels stationed in the river and landed at Wolfe's cove From there they ascended to the plains of Abraham, and stood before the drowning walls of the castle which sheltered the garrison. Re-enforcements had hurried to the defense of the city, and Arnold was confronted by odds of three to one. Be sides he had no artillery, and his men were poorly clad for that rigorous climate and wholly at disadvantage. But the patriots knew to the last man what they had gone