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

September was gone the temloeratur,
dropped to 10 degrees above zero. Their
we broke our thermometer and coulC
get no record.
On October 18th we reached the canI
where we had killed the caribou, ane
got together the dried bones we had
left and boiled them for soup. We
scraped the skin from the head and
boiled and ate that and the remains OF
the head The horns we scorcheo, in the
fire and ate them. Everything was eat
en- that we could eat all the way down
on our retreat. Before we began. our
retreat from the big lake L had lost 10
inches in waist measure Our bones
were sticking through the skim We
had not shaved or cut our hair, and
our appearance must have been pitiable.
know the others looked, and particu-
iarly Hubbard. like walking skeletons.
We were so weak at length that we
could not sit down without falling.
WALKING SKELETONS.
Along the route We had left portions
of our outfit until it was reduced to the
absolute necessaries. My rife, Hub
bard's sextant and other valuable
things were left behind. We had sever
al miles to run on small river with
dangerous rapids. Hubbard tried to
manage the canoe through one with
George and nearly wrecked it. Then
George and 1 ran the rest and took
with success. We carried the old carl
bou bones with US. and boiled them over
and over and drank the water.
AT length one day Hubbard could not
carry his little pack into amp and /
made him put it down and follow with
out any load. I returned and got his
pack. The next day. October 18th, was
the same. George and / got wood for
a fire. We were eighty miles from
Northwest river, but at the head of
Grand Lake, forty miles away, where
we hoped to find some trappers and
some food. On the way, some twelve
miles below, Hubbard gave out. We
had left a bag with some remnants of
wet flour in it. We hoped to get some
help from that. After making camp
and lighting our fire. we had a consul
tation, and it was decided that we
should leave our caribou bones and
some pieces of q -four bag found
thrown away on the way up), with
some Jumps of moldy flour sticking to
it, for Hubbard, and George and /
should go on the next morning to the
find some flour in it. sat up nearly
all night keeping the fire going to warm
Hubbard. and the next morning. after
getting some wood and wrapping Hub
bard in my blankets, George and 1
started Hubbard was able to walk
about camp. Before going read XIV
Chapter of John and, at his request,
my favorite chapter, XII First Corill-
thians 1 somehow felt that I would
never see him alive again, and it was
very hard to go.
LEAVING HUBBARD.
We had grown very close to each
other in the summer and during our
severe hardships and endeavored al
ways to tighten each others load and
1 felt toward him as a brother. l tried
to turn to him several tinls6 TO say
good-oy, but felt each tees the tou
breaking down and for a to expectora
with my back to him, IA makes
said we must start. 80. 1ass freou,
to him what 1 felt T. -. tae1, r,sed
and, in spite of my - 4 .ss disease W
and sobbed like - a1,, nv. All De
nls olary WIN NTH & Co. Ltd, Age
October IS, 100
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