The St. Mary banner., 1921-01-22

| basket was smashed dSdlHol Iho
ground.
'The balloon caught between the
trees. We had taken the pfgeons INTO
the basket to protect them from IN
landing. Usually they ride In cage
| tied outsidz of the basket. The wealth
er was clear sad nearly freezin1.
"All three of us ssepr d GU o. tn-
basket il our ..yinE clothes. . toog
the sril. >y9 {. ,r2 soaai1g Ces. -Aloo-'
,ook the pigeon cage. We etsrteG oi-
1T ! teeeide oac9 20 Sc. |neee sh@
,1o: nnraeG. we Gid not step 60 in
spocf the DeflooA. From Ghe bearings
4 took IN ghe balloon we figured the
loG 20 ge south by east from us.
I Start on Lene Trek.
! "fTe started through the forest Gil
that line. l carried my grip for one
day. We went IN until dark and
made a fire. l smoked two cigarettes
while we rested; So did hlo0r. lin
F! ton did not smoke.
eve did not eat that day; we car
| riea the pigeons until the next day.
t There was some snow Dn the ground,
~ we got lot of pine brush to lie
! On and I picked Tot OF rotten wood
| with my penknife We had no fire
arms-oniy TIE knife and tie box OF
matches.
Hinton went on a little 10 find q
stream. While he was gone lie laid
of his flying suit TO make better head
wav and he could not find II On his
| way back.
THAT night l slept next to Hinton.
| lie was next TO the fire. I was on the
outside. kloor lay Off to one side and
slept. We got On fne together iii the
forest. Hinton and / didn't sleep.
We got up at daylight
They Eat Firss Pigeon.
I'VE ate q pigeon that morning, De-
cember Is. We cleaned a pigeon md
cooked It. We divided it in three
| parts, q couple CT mputhfuls apiece.
| We drank water out OF moose tracks
and holes in the ground. That is
: what probably made ne sick the next
| day. We started Of, carrying my
| grip.
I'VE came 70 q creek that day (1he
Indians call this stream Ghe Nesc@-
| hagal. Hinton was leading and kept
moyfneS too far 10 the west.
I u proposed to hifa to so soutle&s,.
/ In 80 minutes we got to the creek,
i 2Yhich was Aot EEozel over, SC We lad
: to follow she bCnk. W 2ampC1 s-gir
| il. gooL shape. ), o. one, was n0t
, veg nu- 81, but se we old ,fhen
| eye ~to7peG walking.
"Ee had L4adc fire an reste at
loon, bu- re 6iL cot ca in orde +
cor~l. ge food We arr-ed about
where we We figvred it Sc % G,
W. ere in the woods in Ca ada, buL
ASH IRE.
I How they Rere CARRIED.
"t that time VS. st a my
flying suit, F'nt I y inform and
Kloor uniform and flying suit. We
/ a, wore flying boots. My grip pt
| getting foul Of trees, so l threw y
away ten o'clock. bat took care to
| put 1t In a tree. Before that l got
| my good English shoes out Of ii. grip
and put lem on and threw away my
flying boots, which were pretty near
, gone.
II did make more than four
miles the fir, day nor more than sev-
en- or eight the sec id da". Our night
camp was on the creek. We did not
eat. During the day we all nibbled
a bit of a kind Of moss we found grow
ing around.
"We were not cheerful. We began
to dread that this dog barking prop
osition was a kind of phoney. There
were so many noiseS figure now it
was q wolf barking. We saw a lot Of
wolf tracks.
Youngest Flyer Ptays.
"Kloor told us he had been praying
not out loud, but just to himself.
I'm not much on religion; 1 didn't
pray. No more than l made propo-
sition they should dine off me.
Hinton and / discussed our course
while Kloor was praying. We had to
admit we were in a pretty serious jam
and felt pretty blue. But when we
quit we had hunch that the third
day was going to be lucky.
1--WE ate the second pigeon and killed
the other one the morning Of the third
day-December 16. Kloor put the
dead pigeon in his pocket. We did this
to do away with the cage.
During the night Hinton and Kloor
got their feet In the fire. Now their
flying shoes were burned and they had
tn fhroW them AWAY and walk In uni-