'Alford Andors'

Alfred says he made his way through the mountains for just over two months, miraculously managing to survive on tree roots and rosebuds. He tells them that em hed got in snow blindness along the trail as they were going on, and he was starting lag behind. Um, since they didn't want to get slowed down any more, israel gave him a shotgun to protect himself,. And then the rest of the men went on their way, basily abandoning him.