Year: 1873

piece of slate rock which was sharp on
one edge, and with this / succeeded in
opening u vein on the inside off hind
leg, and the blood trickled forth.
put my mouth to the wound and moist
ened my tongue with the hot, pungentt
Blood which, though bitter ana
naseous, afforded me some relief, ana
i'm few moments 1 was able to swal-
low, and then drank all ! could; and
tearing open the wound, l held my
hat and caught at least quart OF blood
which L afterwards drank and then
laid down in the shade of "a
BUSH; the blood made me quite sick
at the stomach for little while, but l
soon got stronger, and, conscious that
my life depended on my endurance,
started down the mountains, lying
down frequently in the shade of
punches of sage brush; whittier was
going l knew not, only that / prayed
to God for strength and direction to
water; kept on until dark, and then,
having reached a dividing ridge laid
down; the hot air was blowing hard,
and singed me like a furnace, but with
my hands dug down into the sand
to moist earth and showered. 1t over
my body to cool my agony, for the re-
lief had experienced from drinking
blood had all departed, and all my suf-
ferings returned tenfOld. At last |
fell asleep and must have slept several
hours Gas near as can tell, till mid
night,) and when awoke the wind
had become fiercer and cold, and l
was so chilled and benumbed that l
could scarcely move, and racking
pains as sharp as knife pierced me
through and through. ! rubbed my
cramped limbs and at last got so
could stand; when by swinging my
arms and stamping the ground was
enabled to walk, and although my
feet were so swollen that | could not
put on my shoes, and the sand had
worn the flesh from my soles, | started
about daybreak down to the eastward,
and about O'Clock, when the sun had
become almost intOlerable, struck the
road which l came in and from the
bones of skeleton horse which / re-
membered, knew / must be twelve
or fifteen miles from Mesquite Springs,
and although nearer Bedrock Springs;
| felt it unsafe to find an unknown
place, and one, too, which l had first
missed, and | was assured that my
only chance for life was in reaching
Mesquite Springs. started, and
every half or quarter of mile, | would
dig down to damp sand and get tenn
porary relief by a regular sand bath,
and resting little while 60 forward.
Oh! sir, if you only knew how | suffer-
ed during that struggle for life along
that terrible road; how prayed for u
wagon; for breath of cool air; for q
drop of water to cool my fevered
throat and parched mouth. My feet
were bleeding, my fingers wore to the
quick digging, and my tongue pro-
truding from mouth and cracked with
heat and fever; unable to swallow
and almost suffocated, my body COW
cred with burning blisters, and my
strength almost gone. l thought of all
l had ever done, of friends and life, and
then came the thought of death in that
terrible desert. 1t was horrible, so
walked and crawled along, and about
| / o'clock l think, reached the spring.
I remembered how drinking water
had caused death, and although l
crawled and rolled into the spring,
whose waters were as sweet as lie,
and were life, l only bathed my
mouth and tongue until the swelling
subsidized, and then drank cup full
or so. For about an hour lay in that
glorious spring, and gradually my
fever stopped and my burning throat
quenched. And then the pangs of
hunger came on, and / felt almost
fainting with its terrible gnawing. I
then left the spring, and after the
longest hours / ever knew, reached
this place in the condition these gen.
tleman tell you. shall never forget
their nor your kindness, and may God
grant death at once rather than q Sec
Ond journey of sixty-four hours with
out water"


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