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equilibrium between the internal secretions due to a trying e\« 

 was furnished recently by the reactions of three naval 

 officers lost in the snow wilds ol i through a balloon * . 



ture. The cases aroused a good deal of interest at the time, and 

 .Is were reported by the newspapers as if they were the 

 episodes of a serial mystery story. 



The three officer I out late one fine evening from Rock- 



away Air Station in a balloon for a practice trip. Atmospheric 

 conditions suddenly changed, they became lust in the clouds, and 

 finally landed somewhere in the Canadian wilderness. The com- 

 mander of the balloon crew, Lieut. A., 23 years old, was the 

 youngest of the three; the oldest, Lieut. B., being 45, and the 

 third man in the thirties, Lieut. C. 



According to the testimony given at the Court of Inquiry held 

 afterwards, two hours after they abandoned the balloon and 

 started struggling through the snow, B. became tired and com- 

 plained of his fatigue. B.'s fatigue increased, and two days later 

 became so great that the party had to stop for an hour and build 

 a fire in order to permit him to rest. However, an hour proved 

 too little: and in another half hour he was falling and fainting. 



Letters written by C. to his wife and gotten hold of by re- 

 porters declared that B. at this juncture passed into a semi-sane 

 state, in which he accused himself of a number of sins, and volun- 

 teered to commit suicide, so that the others would not be 

 burdened by his weakness. Also, that they might use his body 

 to fortify themselves. A. discussed with C. the advisability of 

 taking B.'s knife away from him. Living on their carrier pigeons, 

 niued on, moved by a desperate hope of iinjjing some- 

 one. B. had several fainting spells after drinking water traced 

 by moose tracks. 



Luck favored them, and they encountered an Indian who 



. thflO to a place called Moose Factory. Here they wrote 



! i reached (heir wives and the daily press 



bcfoK i civilisation. A great hue and 



cry was raised by about their plight Newspaper 



!i other for (he honor of hcin 

 t them and get th Kr Stoa 



1 at a collection of houses named ] . A. and 



iln ad and found them not to talk. 



to B., who eras io a shack srith the < ideate 



full of the story of the letfc PI B. tfed and struck C. 



