I sent one final shout after him to stick to the tracks, and he said, 'All right' and the mare carried him out of sight almost instantly.
"Gibson had left me with a little over two gallons of water, which I could have drunk in half-an-hour.

All the food I had was eleven sticks of dirty, sandy, smoked horse, averaging about an ounce and a half each.
"On the first of May, as I afterwards found out, at one o'clock in the morning, I staggered into the camp, and awoke Mr.Tietkins at daylight.
He glared at me as if I had been one risen from the dead.

I asked him if he had seen Gibson.

It was nine days since I last saw him.

The next thing was to find Gibson's remains.