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Then he slept for eight hours on end and was awakened in time to drop into a small boat which deposited him on the broad sand beach of the lower peninsula . The train was just leisurely making up for departure . Thorpe , dressed as he was in old `` pepper and salt '' garments patched with buckskin , his hat a flopping travesty on headgear , his moccasins , worn and dirty , his face bearded and bronzed , tried as much as possible to avoid attention . He sent an instant telegram to Wallace Carpenter conceived as follows : `` Wire thirty thousand my order care Land Office , Detroit , before nine o'clock to-morrow morning . Do it if you have to rustle all night . Important . '' Then he took a seat in the baggage car on a pile of boxes and philosophically waited for the train to start .