The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-02

Jumps of the stuff, parted. The snow
began falling thick and fast. I was
very weak and nearly blind from, the
smoke from our camp fire, when / be-
gan my return march toward Hubbard
and camp. Before noon the snow was
half way up to my knees. The spruce
and fir tree branches were bending low
with their weight OF snow; the river
was partially frozen and the whole sur
face of the country was changed. I
made slow progress, due to the snow
and my extreme weakness, and that
night made fire near the place where
we forded the river. The snowstorm
never ceased night and day until the
evening of October 18th.
WALKING IN A DREAM.
The next day I forded the river,
breaking the thin ice on the edge until
reached ice thick enough to bear me
and allow me to climb out of the water
onto it. The next day 1 was still far.
from camp when night came and the
third day. walked the greater part of
the night. The river was low frozen.
The snow had obliterated all landmarks
and after walking up and down several
times where l thought the camp must
be, was at length compelled TO give
up the search and headed toward Grand
Lake. My intellect was numbed
through weakness and I walked in
half dream. Sometimes imagined my
self asleep and dreaming and felt that
all 1 had and was enduring was just a
dream, and 1 would soon awake. My
matches were nearly gone and wood
was hard to get. I made but the one
fire each day-at night. Then l would
sit down in the snow by my little blaze
and would hear woman's voice quite
plainly at my side, telling me to break
some boughs for a bed and fix myself
as comfortable as could and lie down.
Then with an effort L would break a
few boughs and sit down and she would
say to me, sometimes, when had not
broken enough boughs for a good bed:
Hadn't you better break a few more,
you will rest better2
The voice was always so strong and
natural that could get up and break
more. And once or twice 1 would hear
her speak to me and tell me TO keep up
my courage. And so it was day after
day, night after night, until l lost all
record of time I had been away from
camp and did not know the day of the
week or even what month it was. One
night L was almost too weak ard ex-
hausted to get my sticks for a fire. I
got a few together, very few. and
made a little fire under the stump of a
fallen tree by a bank. The. stump was
rotten and took fire and smoked and |
s,noldered all night. rejecting some
heat.
HELP ARRIVES.
In the morning I tried to get some /
more sticks, but fell in the snow. |
could not walk. 1 MAS overcome with /
the desire for sleep and sat doing by |
the stump. and it would have been my
last sleep am confident that would |
nave been my last bivouac-when / /
heard some one shout very near me, /
and almost Immediately four dark /
faced men on snowshoes, with big /
packs on their backs, came over the
bank. l was too much dazed for
moment 10 realize they were men.
rad not seen human being other than
Hubbard and George since July 18th,
md in my wanderihgs had come to
- - 1 was the only person left in the
- Then rem5mbered George was
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:. Honolulu. April 1. 1904. 90