The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1921-11-04

most sincere, deVout Christian loyal
ty that it has even been my fortune
t. witness.
This tall, untutoxed dark man Of
the forest, before partaking of a
mouthful of his meager repast, knelt
upon the ice, removed his hat am Of
fered up prayer of thanks to God
for the bounties spread before Ia,
and / began to wonder if wss .ot
already in Goods Country"
Taking advantage of the Indians
fire, we made kettle Of tea, warmed
the mush, fed the dogs and partook
of our own midday meal, and were
soon again en- the trail. AS we ap-
preached Presque Isle point we found
the trail crossed overland to Presque
Isle bay. We had cleared the point
and struck out again On the ice lit
tie before sunset and could see the
houses in the outskirts Of Marquette
some three miles or more away. Page,
the guide and I, struck out abreast
to see who would reach the "goal'
to see who would reach the "goal"
first. We took a good lively dog-trot
and had gone half mile or so when
! noticed that Richards and the dog
train had fallen some distance behind
and Captain Mack was quite dis
tance behind him, apparently pretty
well petered out. said to Page: "We
ought to wait for them and all keep
along together" "Nc," said Page,
"let's get en-. 1t will encourage them
to greater effort" and again we
started on our dog-trot and another
half mile was covered when / called
a halt.
1t was then becoming quite dusk
and growing cold rapidly. insisted
it was not righ to leave these men be-
hind and that ! would &C no further
until they were with us, but Page,
with his guide, went on, saying he
would have supper ready for US when
we got in. Richards, ith his dogs,
soon came up, and Captain Mack lat
er came toddling along, hardly able
to put one foot ahead Of the other.
Now Captain Mack had habit,
when he wished to say anything en-
phatically, Of prefacing his remarks
with the phrase "By Damn" and his
first remarks to me was "By damn,
Robinson, can't go any further"
But" said !, "you must go, Cap
tain," and taking him by the arm
undertook to help him along, but
saw at once it was useless; he could
not walk. then said, sect aboard
the train and / will make the dogs
draw you" We got him aboard and
started ahead, but the old man was
unable to held himself on top of the
rounded load and after falling of
couple of times, begged Of us to 90
ahead and leave him there and get
somebody to come for him with a
sled. ] realized that something must
be done and that quickly, and un-
strapping my snowshoes and an axe
from the team and telling Richards
not to leave the old man, but keep
him moving and follow my trail, /
started for the shore, about a quar-
ter Of a mile distant. On reaching
shore, struck into thick growth Of
evergreens near the molth of Dead
River, an ideal camping ground for
a cold night. The mercury registered
% degrees below zero at Marquette
that night. Getting busy with a
shovel, soon cleared the snow from
a space sufficiently large for our
camp, heaping the snow on three
sides, and then proceeded to build a
three-sided camp with small ever
green trees set thickly together in a
bank Of snow surrounding three sides
of the cleared space. For a roof we
had the extended branches of large
evergreen trees surrounding the
camp, and still above these the starry
heavens. then broke evergreen
boughs and thickly covered the
ground between our snow walls. to
serve as floor and bed for the night.
Clearing space in front and pre-
pairing a quantity of wood, built a
rousing fire and then took my trail
back to the lake shore a few rods
distant, where ] found Richards and
the dogs had already gained the
shore and were awaiting Captain
Mack,who was climbing up slight
embankment on his hands and knees.
We socn reached the camp and
spreading blankets on the evergreen
floor were comfortably housed for the
night. My comrades were too much
exhausted to be able to assist, there
fore ! prepared supper. After eat
ing heartily of thawed-out bread
and meat, washed down with boun-
tif1l draughts Of streng, hot tea, we
all felt refreshed and cheered. The
faithful dogs had also partaken of a
good warm supper Of "mush" dread
ed corn meaD and curled up in q
corner Of the camp, they seemed hap
lpy.
had prepared gren maple logs and
dried cedar wood to keep our Are TO
ling through the night and was about
to enter the camp when heard 4
shouting in the distance and stepping
to the lake front could see three Ian.
terms some distance apart, but keen
ing abreast Of each other coming ur
| the bay and could hear vigorous
''helloes" at intervals Of two or three
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