Evening star., 1909-05-23

of the 18th. with five gallons of water.
About Z o'clock the next morning he
again returned to camp. with both horses,
saying that his own animal had broken
down after going short distance and
that he had been unable either to find
Pablo or his trail.
After listening to the statement made
by this Mexican. sent my Papago. Jose.
an expert trailer among tribe of trail
ers. out on the better of the horses to
find traces OF Pablo. I gave him full
instructions as to routes, places for smoke
signals. etc. as l knew that country bet
ter than he. and ordered him to go to the
limit OF his horses endurance and then
to his own limit beyond. He car
ried food for himself and his horse, be-
started about 10 O'Clock on the morning
of August II. Stopping only to send
up smoke. he followed Jesus ill-chosen
trails and easily located the point at
thence, in the darkness of early night.
he followed with difficulty the foot trail.
Reaching the sand hills about moonrise
he left the horse and labored seven miles
farther through the dunes. then returned,
making signal fires here and there. Pick
ing up the horse and giving him half a
gallon Of water from his hat, he arrived
at camp. speechless and exhausted. just
before noon on Friday. the 18th.
Il was convinced that further effort to
seemed probable that even IL he had not
gone on to Aqua Salada en- route to Santo
Domingo, he could hardly still survive. for
he had already been out over three days.
with only one days water, and most of
those who die from desert thirst expire in
less than that time. So, although Jesus
and his horse were still unrestored, and
the other animal had been moving almost
steadily for eighty hours and had Travelled
over 226 miles. I packed Jesus of toward
Wellton and Yuma to report there his
virtual abandonment of the man he had
undertaken to guide and protect, supple
menting his prospective verbal report with
special delivery letter to be mailed at
Wellton in time for the 2 o'clock train
Saturday morning.
80 ended the first episode in the Pablo
Valencia event. In the afternoon OF Au-
gust 18. I remained uneasy a day or two
longer, and next day and the day follow
ing climbed a neighboring peak 7jO feet
high, and also walked out few miles on
the trail to seek for sign; then Jose and I
fell into normal camp routine"
Much of the above is detail, apparently
tnconsequent to the careless reader: but 1t
is the detail Of a scientific mind. and 1t Is
given to show the conditions under which
CURED. No better subject, 1t will be seen,
could have been found for such a test
albeit a most unwilling subject-than this
Mexican. Pablo: and that trained scien-
tist should have been at hand to OBJ
serve and record all the phases Of the
event is q remarkable coincidence, and
one that makes the narrative invaluable
from a scientific viewpoint. Now comes
the most remarkable portion of the story
the tale Of Pablo's wanderings in the
desert. waterless. without food. cut and
gashed by thorns and needle-like rocks.
and. most remarkable of all, his ultimate
rescue and restoration to strength by DR..
MCGEE and his Papago companion.
Early in the morning of Wednesday.
August %, DR.. McGee was awakened
from a vivid dream Of believing cattle
to hear still echoing in his ears, the
reality Of the dream sound. The noise
awoke Jose, and the two stood listening
for its repetition. but only for moment
did they hesitate. Crying that 1t must
be Pablo, and ordering Jose to take a
canteen of water and hurry down the
trail, DR.. MCGEE followed with another
canteen and a medicine case. On the
sands Of the arroyo, under a little iron
wood tree at the foot Of the Mesita de
los Muertos U1ittle Hill Of the Dead),
with its threescore marked graves. the
doctor came upon the wreck of Pablo
Valencia. with Jose already ministering
and aiding him.
The man. who had returned from the
desert, was stark naked; his for
merly full-muscled legs were scrawny