The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-07

 woods without any fire and 7S hours without any food except a few raw mussels, Andrew Formula, of Doug las was found last Thursday noon near Sore Finger Harbor, Seymour Canal. 40 miles from Falls Creek, where he started on a hunting trip Monday morning. He was found by Captain Ole Hahn of the halibut boat Phoenix of Petersburg, who took him on his boat to Pleasant Bay, across the Canal, from which place he was brought to Douglas Saturday night by Hasselberg, Seymour Canal ranch CT. The searching party that went out for the lost mas has been re- called.
 Formula left a small gasboat on which his partner, August Beck was repairing the engine, at o'clock Sat urday morning, October 29, entering , the woods near Falls Creek, short distance northwest of Divers Inlet, on Stephens Passage. That evening Beck became alarmed over his ab- sence and started searching for him without success He looked for him until Wednesday afternoon, when he came to Douglas and reported the matter to Commissioner Felix Gray of that city and to Governor Scott C. Bone Beck headed q searching party that left port Friday morning.
 Got a Little Hungry
 q got a little hungry Thursday morning." Formula said yesterday. "and I picked up about dozen mus sells from the beach and ate them. That was the only food I had from the time I left the boat Monday morning and that was really the only time I had thought much about food A few hours after that someone hailed me as I was walking along the beach and I was soon nice and com fortable on board the gasboat Phoe- nix and being treated like brother Snow Confuses
 In telling of his experiences, Per hula said that he struck out after 1 deer the first morning and soon crossed Glass Peninsula so that he could look into Seymour Canal. | Shortly after that he struck a deer trail and started following it and kept it up for several hours. It started showing and raining and he lost his bearings He struck a creek l that he thought was the one at the mouth of which the boat was an chored and followed it to the beach and when he arrived at the beach | thought he would see the boat. In stead of that he came to what he thought was Oliver's Inlet, although he had never been there. He knew that the boat was a short distance from Divers Inlet so started to walk in the direction that he thought the boat should be- He was on the op- posite side of Glass Peninsula from where the boat was and just across the portage from Divers Inlet He walked until midnight that night and then sat under tree the rest of the night He was wet to the | skin and found that his matches had become watersoaked. so had no fire
 Tuesday morning he started out to go the opposite direction or down Seymour Canal He saw big snow mountain that looked like one that was near where the boat was an chored. He walked most all day to
 wards it, but he said the mountain looked just as far away after he had
 walked for hours. At o'clock that day he saw halibut boat. He took off his shirt and waved 1t and yelled to attract attention, but received nc reply. He retraced his steps back
 the way he had come and sat under a
 tree for another night
 He was keeping to the beach right along and Wednesday morning walk
 ed all day. This was a pleasant day,
 he said so he took off some of his
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