Show the mic la mountain balloon voyage Vroy age X Varra arra U five ive of f mr raddock haddock a companion of the trip the public has already been informed of the safe arrival at ottawa in canada en cn the 3rd ard instant of mr la Aloun mountain tai n and mr haddock who ascended in the balloon atlantic from watertown new york on the of september and for whose safety nuch much fear was felt the watertown courier of october ath contains a long report of the die voyage of the atlantic and the wan wanderings derin 11 and sufferings of the balloonists the account written by mr haddock is interesting the balloonists were up ip in the air from four to fiva hours when findan finding themselves 0 oi era er a dense wilderness and the darkness of night around them they concluded to descend they did so and passed the night ight in the balloon fastened to the top a tall spruce tree and nosed exposed to 1 a 11 drenching dren ebing rain after daylight allig h t they prepared for another ascension bat here we leave mr haddock to speak for himself after a night spent in great discomfort we were were glad to see seethe the first taint faint ray of daylight cold and wet and rainy the morning broke the typical pre precursor curser we were to learn ot of other mornings to be spent in these uninhabited abated wilds we waited until unil six six in in hopes the rain rain would cease and that tho the ras rays of the sun by warming the gas in the ba balloon would give us ascending power sufficient to get get up again tor for the purpose if no n other of obtain im inga a view view of the country into which we had descended the rain rain did not cease and we concluded to throw overall over all we w e had in the balloon except a coat a piece apiece the life preservers the anchor and the compass overboard ird rd then they went good shawls and blankets mr fa fayles tos overcoat bottles of ale and a flask of cordial ropes and traps of all kinds the atlantic relieved of her wet load rose majestically with us and WO we were able to behold the country below it was an unbroken wilderness of lakes and spruce and we felt then that we w e had gone too far through a miscalculation of the velocity of the balloon As the current was nas driving dm ing us still to the north we dare not stay up as we were drifting further and till still further to that frozen froen tide from which wo we know knew there was no escape mr N L la a mountain seized the valve cord coid and discharged the gas and we descended in in safety by the side of a large spruce we made the atlantie atlantic fast by her anchor and for a moment talked over what we should do we had not a mouthful to eat no protection at night from the damp ground were distant we know knew not how far from habitation were hungry to start with no earthly hope of of raising raising a fire and no distant idea as to beere weere where we were we settled in our minds that we were in in john browns tract tractor or in in the great canada wilderness wilder cess to the south we thought of ottawa and knew that a course south by east would take us out if we had strength enough to travel the distance la alou mountain stepped up to the balloon and gave the edge of the basket a parting shake saying sa ing good bye old taa AllUa ajlani 1 its ard pj I 1 fancied I 1 could c u see g a it to the southeast then we started after traveling about a mile amile and a half we vv e came to the bank of a small creek flowing down from the westward at this point we were a agreeably gree ably surprised to find that some human bein being had been there before us I 1 fo for we found found several small trees cut down the coals from an old fire and a half barrel which had contained pork I 1 eagerly examined the stamp it read 1 mess pork P M montreal this settled the question that we were w ere in in canada for I 1 very well knew that no montreal inspection of pork ever found its way into the interior of new york state we traveled all day friday up the unknown creek which kept its general course to the south of west wes crossing it about noon on a floating to log and striking on its southern bank a blazed kracl track which led us up to a deserted timber road lying on the opposite side from a large lumbering shanty we hoped one of the us out to a settlement but after traveling up them all until they terminated in the wilderness we concluded to cross the creek to the shanty and stay in it all night la mountain got across safely but my weight was greater than his and the raft let me into the str stream eara I 1 sank in all over and swam out though it required all my strength to il do so and on reaching ebing the bank I 1 found myself so chilled as scarcely to be able to stand I 1 took off my clothes wrung them and we proceeded to the shanty where we found plenty of refuse straw but it was dry and under a pile of it we crawled pulling it over our heads and faces in the hope that our breath might aid in warming warming our chilled bodies I 1 think the most revengeful stoney sloney heart would have our condition then the weary hours of night at last wore away and we held a new council it was evident we reasoned that the creek we were upon was used for driving togs logs in the spring season if then he we followed it to its confluence with the ottawa or some stream which empties into the ottowa we could in time get out the same way the timber went out the roof of the shanty was covered with i the halves of logs scooped out in a manner familiar to all woodmen goodmen wood men these were light and dry and form an excellent raft why wh y not I 1 I 1 then take fa four ur of these tio tie them tol to cross pieces by wuhen and such old th things I 1 as we could find around the shanty and pole the st down to thil that civilization which a sow saw to log ought to reach such was the course we adopted we W e dra dragged ed the logs down to the creek and la mountain tied them te together gether as he was evidently more a sailor than myself wo ve got under vay and as we pushed off a crow setup set up a dismal cawing an inauspicious big sign n and ominous ominous of the great trials and sufferings in in store for us we polled down dawn stream about ten miles and came abruptly upon an immense pino pine tree which had fallen across the stream completely blocking the passing parsing of the raft no other alternative was left but to untie the pieces and attempt to push them through under the log to this we at last did tied th the e raft together again again and polled down stream today to day we eat each a raw law frog fro all we could find and began to feel thal thai we w e were ere hungry but there w as no c complaining amp lainne i our talk was of the b hopeful ope ful future and the civilization we re h hoped P d yet t to 0 reach down the creek we went into a lake some ome two miles long and into which we of course supposed the stream im passed parsed having its its outlet at the other end we followed follow ed down dow n the northern bank keeping always iii in sli shallow allow i pots so 0 o that our poles could touch the bottom until we arrived at the bottom of tho thi lake where we found no lie outlet and turned back upon the southern balik in in quest of it it on reaching the head of the like lake we found that the current of the creek turned abruptly to t the he right which was the reason rea on of our losing it it we felt harpy happy to have found it n again and plied our poles like heros s we passed during daring the day the spot spot where we had first struck them arf c eek ek and where we had made a slig slight hta a id mark which might afterwards aid Us in in finding the we w e e ev elsh q c ta 1 iv T e did not t step a ep the raft going oin down through the sha shades it es efaw of awful forests whose hose solemn stillness seem to hold the die unrevealed veiled mystery of our darkening future about ten it it began to rain rain again we stopped slopped the seland and crawled in in under some tag alders on the bank where our extreme weariness enabled us to get perhaps half an hours sleep ag again ga in for it was easier easier to pole at night in m the rain rain down an unknown stream than to lie on the ground and freeze we pressed on for a couple of hours until about three when pure exhaustion induced us to stop again this time we found a spot AN where here the clayey bink bank lacked a little of corni coming n down to the water on the mud we w e threw our little bundle of straw and sat down with our feet drawn up under us so that our bent bodies presented as little surface as possible for the rain ram to beat upon but we could not stand such an uncomfortable position long and as the daylight of the sabbath bolce broke upon us we were poling down the stream with a drizzling rain ram at 8 we came to a place where the stream canones cario ned rushing over a stony bed down a steep descent between high r rocks on either bank to get gel our raft down this place we regarded as hopeless we tied up and examined the shore here again we found unmistakable evidence of lumbermen as they had evidently camped at this point to be handy bandy by in in the attempts they were doubtless obliged to make to get the timber down the canon the rapids were about a third of a mile long and in in all the rapids of black river there is nothing in so wild and romantic as these we ascended the bank and thought it best to try our luck on foot after traveling about a mile we found the bank so so tangled and and ourselves so much exhausted that to lo co motion was impossible so we concluded to go back and if we could get the raft down a piece at a time alme we would go on with ith her if not we would build as good a place as possible to crawl into land and prepare tor for death we went back and after examining the stream attentively concluded to try to get the raft down we at once commenced abild and I 1 freely confess f ess this the most trying and laborious v work ork of a life of labor labo r the pieces would not float more than a red at a time I 1 before they stick on I 1 some stone which the li aw w water left above the surface and then you must pry it avor in i some way arid and pass it along to the next obstruction we were obliged to get into the stream often up tip to the middle and there I 1 several everal tirres times fell headlong complete ly y using up our compass which auch now frantically cally pointed in in any direction its addled head thought desirable the water ha hail I 1 uti unglued glued the case and it il 1 AA was as ruined alter after long hours of such labor we e got the raft down and la mountain again aaen tied it together passing in on in in about ut an hour we came to a large lake ten miles long and six six miles broad around it it we w e must of course courna pass until we should find the outlet so we turned up lip to the right and pressed on with as much r resolution eso lution as could be expected exar acted today to day nye me found one clam which I 1 insisted la mountain should eat as lip he was vi as w weaker eaker than myself and had eat little or nothing on the day i we went up around we went ilij all the indentations of the shore keeping always it in shallow water at last we stopped at a place we thought least exposed to the wind we laid down upon the cold ground having lifted up the end of our raft laft so thit that the wind might not drift E it aitay in in the nig night lit we were cold when e laid down and both of us trembled by the hour like men suffering from a severe seere attack of the ague the wind had risen risen just dt at night and the dismal surging of the waves upon this shore f ormed formed I 1 thought a fitting allaby to slumber sao so dist curbed a ours by this aim bitte cecur our clothes were w ere nearly torn off sly my pantaloons were slit up aoth legs and the waistband nearly torn off my aly boots boota both leaked and our mighty in in the canon had t torn the skin fron from andea did 1 aads la mountain ATO s hat was gone the first day oat he had bad throw n away aa ay his woollen drawers draw ers and the first day 0 our by y t tam we i lit of ay iy li tr th ey a b orl e d we slept bajt at little it i eally seemed as though during that night we passed through the horrors of a dozen deaths at daylight we got up by degrees first on one knee and then on the other 0 hr so stiff and weak that we could hardly stand again upon the almost endless lake we went follo iving round its shore lor for an outlet about ten 0 clock we found a broad abroad northern stream which we w e though thought t was the ou outlet t let w e were seeking an and d we entered it it with great joy belie believing ving it it would take us to our long sought ottawa shortly after entering the stream it widened out and assumed the form of a lake we poled up the westerly shore for about seven miles but found we were again deceived it had now been four full da days s since since we ate a meal all we had ate in in the mean time was a fro frog apiece four clams and a few wild berries whose acid properties and bitter taste had probably done us more inore herin harm than linn good our strength was beginning to fail very fast arid and our systems were evidently about to undergo an change I 1 did not permit myself to think of f food the tao dought lit of a well covered table would pae been too much I 1 thought though tover over all poor sufferings on the isthmus of darien danen where he too alis was paddling a raft down an ail unknown ss stream tream but never believed we coult coull stand half the amount of suffering he be did besides he had bad the mea cisto to make a fire we w e had none ile he was upon a stream which he kney would lead to the sea and safety ve e were upon waters whose flow wanew w knew really nothing of and were lost ascough in in the moun mountains tans of the moon but we could not give gi e it it up so and toa fresh courage as troubles appears appear d to thicken we turned the raf around and poled her back toward the place where we had entered last lake we had gone gone about mile when we hoard heard the sound a gun quickly followed by a decoil report no sound was nias ever so kneet to me as that we hat hal aued lueda gloud as we could a good many thesbit thes but could get no response e we kel our poles going r and had gone abut a half a mile when I 1 called la attention to what I 1 abou t was a smoke curlin curling 0 up trees on the s side ide of a hill my own eyesight had begun to fail fad me to an extent that I 1 could not depend upon it when hen a long steady gaze was as necessary he said it was sal smoke k e and that thai be thought just juit below it on the bank was a lark bark canoe in a few moments th the e blue plue smoke rolled gently but unini staka aka bly above the atiee tops and we felt that we were saved such a revulsion sion of cf feeling was almost too loo much for us we could hardly believe our own senses and credited anything thin favorable to our condition wi with the utmost caution our bitter disappointments had taught us that 1 lesson es we ne paddled the raft with the ends of our poles directly across the lake near perhaps three fourths of a mile wide and made for the canoe it proved to be a largo large one evidently an indians up to the bank I 1 pressed leaving la mountain at the canoe to cut off a retreat by the indian in in case chae he was timid and wished to avoid a oid us I 1 carne came at once upon die shanties of a lumbering w wood and from froin the chimney of the furthest farthest build building ng a broad volume of smoke moke was w as rising I 1 halloed hallood a noise was w as heard inside and a noble looking indian came to the door par lez francias 2 was my inquiry as aa I 1 grasped his hio outstretched hand yes sir sir and english too ile he drew me into ino the cabin and there was the head of the party part a noble hearted scotchman named anga cameron I 1 immediately told my fiory s ory that we came |