Original sentence: His account detailed 57 hours spent hiding from the Viet-Minh, before a three day march without food or navigational aids before encountering native tribesmen who provided food and a pony, with which he reached the French forces.On May 22, four days after the fall of the Muong-Khoua garrison, four of its soldiers—French Sergeant Novak, the garrison radio operator, and two Laotians—reached the only remaining French outpost in northern Laos, Phong Saly
Edited sentence: His account detailed 57 hours spent hiding from the Viet Minh before a three-day march without food or navigational aids and then encountering native tribesmen who provided food and a pony, with which he reached the French forces.On May 22, four days after the fall of the Muong-Khoua garrison, three of its soldiers—the garrison radio operator French Sergeant Novak and two Laotians—reached the only remaining French outpost in northern Laos, Phong Saly