from rock to rock and trying to 

 carry steadily the coffee pot, nearly 

 full of melting snow. He put it on 

 the fire and coaxed a blaze suffi- 

 ciently to make coffee. The gift 

 of David would not enable me to 

 sing the adequate praise for that 

 cheering cup. I stopped seeing things 

 and began to feel real again. My 

 crushed foot was bad, and tired- 

 let that pass. 



"The night was very cold. We 

 had not covering enough for two, 

 so we took turns sleeping and in 

 feeding the fire. Cap'n found a 

 dead tree near, which by careful 

 management provided us with fuel. 

 There was not level space enough 

 to lie down in comfort without 

 levelling the rocks. I was awfully 

 worried about leaving the little girl 

 but could not help it. At daylight 

 when I attempted to rise, I really 

 thought something was permanently 

 wrong never felt so queer in all 

 my life, as though the whole ma- 

 chinery of the body was trying to 

 run without oil, everything rubbed 

 and grated together horribly, frozen 

 and famished to boot. Lusk was 



