Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-01-22

wandered four Gays III tHc "ooNe' anu VII
day. We went on until dark and
made a fire. | 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,
~ we got Il 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 on 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 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 I didn't sleep.
We got up at daylight.
They Eat First Pigeon.
1--WE ate a pigeon that morning, De
cember Is. We cleaned a pigeon and
cooked II. 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.
1--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.
II proposed to him to go southeast.
In 80 minutes we got to the creek,
which was not frozen over, so we had
to follow the bank. We camped again
in good shape. l, for one, was not
very hungry, but we were cold when
we stopped walking.
',We had made fire and rested at
noon, but we did not eat In order to
conserve food. We argued about
where we were / figured it 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 l threw it
away at ten o'clock, but took care to
put 1t in a tree. Before that l got
my good English shoes out Of the grip
and put them on and threw away my
fiying boots, which were pretty near
gone.
81 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 all nibbled
a bit of a kind Of moss we found grow
ing around.
1--WE were not cheerful. We began
to dread that this dog barking prop
, osition was kind of phoney. There
were so many noises. l figure now II
, 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; l didn't
pray. No more than l made a propo-
sition they should dine off me.
Hinton and l discussed our course
7 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 bunch that the third
i day was going to be lucky.
1--WE ate the second pigeon and killed
the other one the morning of the third
day-December 10. Kloor put the
4 dead pigeon in his pocket. We did this
o to do away with the cage.
e During the night Hinton and Klool
e got their feet in the fire. Now theil
g flying shoes were burned and they hat
g to throw them away and walk In uni
form boots. My shoes were in the
e best shape.
o Hikers Growing Weak.
t 1--WE were all growing weak and fel
e lot in holes and over trees. Hinton
l. was very weak. l felt like vomiting
Hinton was nauseated, his stomach
e was very bad, but our heads were a!
clear as they are right now.
'r If we had had a definite object W,
II could have gone fifty or a hundred
e miles without so much distress. w,
i saw so much of the same sort O
. woods that it appeared we were no
hnr Dr.
going in circles because we wer,
steered by the compass zigzaggin,
m through the wood. That counte,
lie against US.