THE LONG TRAIL 



ing through similar country and under 

 parallel conditions contain practically 

 none. We went first onto half rations, 

 and then were forced to still further 

 reduce the issue. We had only the clothes 

 in which we stood and were wet all day 

 and slept wet throughout the night. There 

 would be a heavy downpour, then out 

 would come the sun and we would be 

 steamed dry, only to be drenched once 

 more a half-hour later. 



Working waist-deep in the water in an 

 attempt to dislodge a canoe that had been 

 thrown upon some rocks out in the stream, 

 father slipped, and, of course, it was his 

 weak leg that suffered. Then he came 

 down with fever, and in his weakened con- 

 dition was attacked with a veritable plague 

 of deep abscesses. It can be readily under- 

 stood that the entourage and environment 

 were about as unsuitable for a sick man 

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