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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 .