The Holbrook news., 1921-01-21

| neard dog Dark.
 T took bearings with the compass
 on the shack and the place where the 1 dog parked. We decfled to land. We
 were in low clouds about 1000 feet
 high. The wind was north by west,
 the sun had been heating up our bag
 and We began to go up. We reached 6,500 feet. It takes long time to go from that height. Make a Bad Landing.
 "The clouds were below us and above us. We got down about two o'clock. It was a bad landing and we were pretty badly shaken up. We were not hurt or thrown out, but the basket was spashed against the ground.
 ''The balloon caught between the trees. We had taken the pigeons into the basket to protect them from the landing. Usually they ride in a cage tied outside of the basket. The weath- CT was clear and nearly freezing.
 "All three of us stepped out of the basket in our flying clothes. . I took the grip. We were soaking wet. KlOOr took the pigeon cage. We started off at a terrific pace to get where the dog parked. We did not stop to in- spect the balloon. From the bearings took in the balloon we figured the dog to be south by east from us.
 Start on Long Trek.
 "We started through the forest on that line. I carried my grip for one day. We went on until dark and made a fire. I smoked two cigarettes while we rested; so did Kloor. Hin ton did not smoke.
 'We did not eat that day; we car ried the pigeons until the next day. There was some snow on the ground, so we got lot of pine brush to lie on and I picked a lot of rotten wood with Fay penknife. We had no fire arms-oniy the knife and the box of matches.
 Hinton went on a little to find a stream. While he was gone he laid off his flying suit to make better head way and he could not find 1t on his way back.
 ''That night I slept next to Hinton. He was next to the fire. I was on the outside Kloor lay off to one side and slept. We got on fine together in the forest. Hinton and didn't sleep. We got up at daylight.
 They Eat First Pigeon.
 We ate a pigeon that morning, De- cember 15. We cleaned a pigeon and cooked 1t. We divided 1t in three parts, a couple of mouthfuls apiece. We drank water out of moose tracks and holes in the ground. That is what probably made me sick the next day. We started off, carrying my grip.
 "We came to a creek that day (the Indians call this stream the NescO- haga). Hinton was leading and kept moving too far to the west.
 q proposed to him to go southeast. In 30 minutes we got to the creek, which was not frozen over, so we had to follow the bank. We camped again in good shape. I, for one, was not very hungry, but we were cold when we stopped walking.
 "We had made a fire and rested at noon, but we did not eat in order to conserve food. We argued about | where we were. I figured 1t some where in the woods in Canada, but l wasn't sure.
 How They Were Garbed.
 "At that time I was still in my | flying suit, Hinton in uniform and | KIoor in uniform and flying suit. We | all wore flying boots. My grip kept | getting foul of trees, so I threw 1t | away at ten o'clock, but took care to put 1t in a tree. Before that I got | my good English shoes out of the grip | and put them on and threw away my | flying boots, which were pretty near gone.
 q did not make more than four miles the first day nor more than sev- en or eight the second day. Our night camp was on the creek. We did not eat. During the day we all nibbled ! bit of a kind of moss we found grow ng around.
 "We were not cheerful. We began .o dread that this dog barking prop ,sition was a kind of phoney. There were so many noises. I figure now it was a wolf barking. We saw lot of wolf tracks.
 Youngest Flyer Prays.
 "Kloor told us he had been praying not out loud, but just to himself. I'm not much on religion; didn't pray. No more than I made propo- ;ition they should dine off me.
 Hinton and I discussed our course while KlOor was praying. We had to ldmit we were in pretty serious jam md felt pretty blue. But when we Iuit we had a hunch that the third lay was going to be lucky.
 "We ate the second pigeon and killed he other one the morning of the third lay-December 16. KlOor put the lead pigeon in his pocket. We did this o do away with the cage.
 During the night Hinton and Kloor rot their feet in the fire. Now their lying shoes were burned and they had O throw them away and walk in uni orm boots. My shoes were in the est shape.
 HIkers Growing Weak.
 "We were all growing weak and fell Iof in bOIac and Ovar frooS Hinton I