Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-09
ny LIEUTENANT LOUIS KLopi. .In..

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/ am now in country surrounded
y! lee fields and vast cSpare"s Of
SNOW covered hills and wooded for
ISIS. Writing ~ a place, TX this is
note ~ one OF the New YORK hotc.S.
~, this. time. my poop" ana the
naval AUTHORITIES have given me and
my friends. Farrell and Hinton. ur
as being; lost. ana never TO return
again. 1t appears that way 20 M.
If you hal gone through the ordeal.
fucnla! anH physical routes az uoii,
that have IN the last fcw days you
/ would no doubt partly agree with mo.
| When ! left the air station q, T. ".
tEoCkaway. -. - little diI | think
that my free balloon would come TO
sucH an ending
Monday night. when up in Ncw
| were flying q, about 1000 feet For
! hours during tn" night We Travelled
| and saw nothing but snow above. be-
low and about US Early neat morn
| ni.lrs.
!, ~: tim. 70 worry, orr hallast
| tired and hungry "" could not land.
! II sc had. ali woulI' have been lost
| In order 10 remain in the air "" had
| to throw OYER everything but oar
| At 1870 TUESDAY. when flying at
ahout C.pVb f"ct. we could see hut
Mclow W. ana hoard IN" bark OF n dor.
Z
tho balloon down We landed in "a
I lierc" wind in q snow-clad forest. We
lcf; the balloon ana everything. bat
onr compass. and started In tho gem
Graf direction Of the hut We had seen
from The air.
You cannot conceive how VIC suf-
'crcd--anl our suffering had Just
started None Of us was properly
! ella! for severe weather and ii WAS
2"ny Tor us "" vailed until
l. VI. Tuesday. and hal 10 end our
march because II vas getting dark.
and our Zee; were almos, frozen stiH
Thc only io"d We had with Us WAS
had taken on the trip 10 send back
70 Inc station with messages
Tn"Sday night Killed one of them
and this constituted our meal. we
bod 10 cat snow 10 uucuch our thirst.
We could not sleep We were worried
an. ssw iit,lc hone, Of ever getting
We're wet and covered with snow and
The Are we bull, vas large, bu, !,
the IRE your back would freeze. in
drying your feet you almost had TO
Start on Hike.
Wednesday mDrgInS VIZ started ont
y nike through Tho woods again.
We could only walk about :wo hours
at 4 stretch, and then stopped to build
IRE and regain our strength. The
woods We're so thick that wr could
not make more than one and haif
, mics IN day our misery lasted
~ about :. VI Friday we reached
an ice-c"v"red stream. on this stream
W. found TO our great joy. the track
- a -!"t ana the footprints Of man.
"" followed these tracks for miles
Thcn about T. II. Ne sighted a man
""rn, two miles away ON 2 lake.
ran Tor thirty minutes. finally over
taxing him He was an Indian tran
per and could speak neither English
derStand how hungry and sick we
~, were: He led TO ,his place
tMn@.ose Factory.
road and II viii TAX. US about rc,
days hiking over an lcc covered river
10 reach a town: We begin our march
rom hcrc on Wednesday ana Will no.
be in New York before January 10.
Moose Factory, Dccombcr 81
since last writing YOU on December
chance has occurred which viii
seven days. Instead OF l.av.n1; to-
morrow as previously planned | will
not he able to do SO until December
p. as explained In my first letter.
tcr writtcn)
This place is about 200 miles from
a railroad. The manager Of the IIud- |
son Bay Co at this place is sub |
out Of here by special dog sled. lie |
is going to make all preparations
for our clothing and Indian guides. |
dog teams etc. 20 make the trip. |
This Will TAX. time and patience.
Trip Quite am Undertaking.
The trip is quite an undertaking. |
We may have weather Of twenty
below zero befor" We start so that |
every little means OF comfort vii! /!
help. | guess YOU understand tina: |
wc VIII have 10 walk the whole dis
tancc OF 900 miles
lieutenant Farrell is weak and I
n rid of
This VIII retard us to Il small cx-
tent.
This is a beautiful country thoush.
ana me AIR puts III" into You and
] have an appetite Of late. These
Indians. are n queer lot and have
many tales TO tell Won of my OK
p"ricnccs with them. The only white
people here are the Hudson Bay en-
ploTcs. There are three OF them:
young scouts. They live with us
There are no white women here,
except the wife OF Mr.. Thorp who