“he treasure seekers—At left is Mr. and Mrs. New, Joyce and the new baby in the basket:

ouring rain didn’t improve our
pirits.

We saw a couple of moose, heard
ne wolf and also saw grizzly bear
racks about a foot in diameter.
“hank heaven we didn’t actually see
grizzly as our guns were not suff-
iently powerful to take a chance of
rounding one of the brutes.

OLD TIMER GOT DISGUSTED

Murphy (74 years of age) was
etting completely disgusted with the
thole set-up, not to mention Bon-
er and myself swearing and falling
round, with the prospect of waiting

whole month for transportation
ack home.

One late afternoon Murphy sat

n the ground and stated that there
e was staying until morning.

I decided to walk ahead a bit to
\ok for some shelter.

I finally ran across a fairly decent
‘ail and eventually came to a clear-
1g with a comfortable home in the
ntre of it.

I walked slowly toward the house
nd peered in the window.

You can imagine my surprise at
eing a young couple enjoying a
ice hot dinner. The wife gave a
ight scream when she looked to-
ard the window and saw a wet
ewhiskered face looking in at them.

The couple were George and Mrs.
lew.

They quickly invited me in and
ave me the best meal of my whole

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clothes.
George and I went back for

Murphy and Bonner, so we had our
first dry sleep for several nights.

We were the first visitors that
George had in the 12 years that he
lived in the Anzac.

A day or two later we headed for
the hills again. On the second night
out about midnight I awakened my
companions to tell that the knife-like
pains in my chest were unbearable
and that I was practically frozen.
Bonner heated some salt and put it
on my chest and Murphy got the
fire blazing.

They took turns in staying awake
to see that the sparks from the fire
didn’t ignite my sleeping bag. I was
in a sitting position and couldn't
stand up or lie down. I stayed this
way for three days and three nights
until I could get back to George's
house. After a week and a half I
was strong enough to travel so George
brought us down as far as Davie

Lake.

We had lost about 25 pounds each
from our experience. After four
weeks in the hospital I began to plan
another trip but with George New
as captain next time we go.

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