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dikeor*thelogir»gfjer tlo forREMARKABLE ENDURANCEThe powers of human endurance seem to be limitless. The sufferings of Lieutenant‘Greeley and the ill fated members of the Janneltc Arctic expedition show that the spark of life is hard to quench in a healthy body.Given courage, a strong will, a fearless mind, and it is astonishing;what prodigious feats of endurance may be performed. The neighborhood of 'Wo-ioa.; tasklwin has provided several, aslon-h 1** * j ishing -'examples of this. Last suni-5®UJ'mer an old lady, (Mrs. Mackenzie, «f Hay Hakes), about G5 years of age. being left temporarily alone overnight by her son, went forth into tin.* brush by her house to fetch a milchJobpodpro*ft ratall. • close Vi nil i,riill, cow. She lost track of her surround-iand*oralrrohainu, butI. Clugs, didn't iind lire cow, and kept onwandering. Although hunted for highling : and low by over 20 neighbors, the old'lady was not found till the fifth'-.night. Her discovery was purely accidental. One of the searchers happened to he j riding by a clump of brush and fancied -h^ heard some, one sobbing. Dis-ImounUng, he followed the sound andcame on the lost one walking aimlessly about, softly crying to herself. £hc had been out five days and fivo 5ibly ; nights without a bite to eat. and no 'shelter. -The strangest feature? of this ease is that 2-1 -hours after-4 • • ,• • • , * 'wards she was as well as ever and at tending to her household duties. Fortunately this occurred in summer time. Hast, winter, a teamster, on his way from Pun oka to Pigeon Hake, after n load of while fish, had his team run away. lie started to take |a short cut to the lake and of course “• got lost. The unfortunate man was iout.-seven days and nights with the .• j thermometer far below zero. When ,*on- :found, lie was' seated on' - tlie snow.lonaltumoanycrthutd.1809des-in .1 by wise*’ • ’’*• i • 1 • *toin-rieesgen-:linedv r 1Luralleaning against a • tree, suffering no apparent discomfort. Me joked with the members of the search party. Hisj extremities ^ were’ ■ however, badlyfiozen and the poor fellow died while; l.aving them amputated,in Edmonton.But those two foregoing cases were trifles, compared with the' experience undergone /the oilier day by an Assy-, rian pedier, named- George Nofieltl r* bou t CO miles east of AVetask’s win. Tl:is man' was actually lost afoot on
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Revelstoke Herald
Ravelstoke, British Columbia, CA
Wed, Apr 05, 1899
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