Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-21

day. We went on until dark and
made fire. l smoked two cigarettes
while We rested; so did Kloor. Hin
ton did not smoke.
I'VE did not eat that day; we car
ried the pigeons until the next day.
There was some snow on the ground,
30 we got a lot of pine brush TO lie
on and | picked a lot of rotten wood
with my penknife. We had no fire
arms-only the knife and the box of
matches.
Hinton went Oh q little to find a
stream. While he was gone he laid
off his flying suit to make better head
way back.
THAT night l slept next to Hinton.
He was next to the fire. was on the
outside. Kloor lay off to one side and
slept. We got on fine together in the
forest. Hinton and l didn't sleep.
We got up at daylight.
They Eat First Pigeon.
1--WE ate pigeon that morning, De-
cember 10. We cleaned u pigeon and
cooked it. We divided 1t in three
parts, 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, 1 carrying my
grip.
I'VE 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.
II 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. /, for one, was not
we stopped walking.
1--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. 1 figured 1t some
where in the woods In Canada, but
wasn't sure.
How They Were CARRIED.
AT that time l was still in my
flying suit, Hinton in uniform and
Kloor in uniform and flying suit. We
all wore flying boots. My grip kept
getting foul of trees, SO / threw 1t
away at ten o'clock, but took care to
put it in tree. Before that l got
my good English shoes out of the grip
and put them on and threw away my
flying boots, which were pretty near
gone.
.I did not make more than four
miles the first day nor more than sew
en- or eight the second day. Our night
camp was on the creek. We did not
eat. During the day we al nibbled
a bit of a kind of moss we found grow
ing around.
I'VE were not cheerful. We began
to dread that this dog barking prop
osition was kind of phoney. There
were so many noises. / figure now 1t
was 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 ] made n 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 a 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 IS. 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 ti.ey had
to throw them away and wslk in uni
form boots My shoes were in the
best shape
Hikers Growing Weak.
I'VE We're all growing weak and fell
n lot in holes and over trees. Hinton
was very weak. | felt like vomiting.
Hinton was nauseated. his stomach
was very bad, but our heads were as
clear as they are right now.
"If we had had definite object we
could have gone fifty or hundred
miles without so much distress. We
saw so much of the same sort of
woods that It appeared we were not
going anywhere. But we we're not
going in circles because we we're
steered by the compass zigzagging
through the wood That counted
against us.