, and on
stopping to take his bearings, he was horrified to find that his
compass was lost. There was nothing by which he could determine his
position or the direction of the city. He began to get drowsy from the
cold and knew he would perish if he did not labor incessantly to
keep up his temperature. He concluded that he only had to pull away
from the ice to reach Chicago, and for at least five hours he worked
in what he considered to be the right direction. Still there was no
sign of the city. Then he changed his course and pulled with all
the energy of desperation. The ice gathered about him again and when
night came, he was fighting it for his life. Sometimes he would dodge
the drifts, at others he climbed upon the cakes and crossed them. He
got a flash view of the moon when it rose and then saw that he had been
working wrong. He had crossed the field in the morning when he got into
what he thought was an opening and all the long day he had been driven
toward Michigan. The turn he had taken sent him south. Observing the
moon he changed his course, and in a couple of hours saw the glare from
the furnaces of South Chicago. Taking his bearings from them, he
sighted the lights at the water work's crib, where he arrived at
midnight and aroused Captain McKay by a blast of the bugle and was
hauled up. He was given refreshments and retired. He had been seventeen
hours in the water.

During the spring, Paul made a run of eight hundred miles down the Ohio
from Wheeling to Evansville for amusement, and another of two-hundred
miles down the Missouri from St. Joseph to Kansas City.

Late in the winter of 1889, he again visited the Pacific coast. His
object was the capture of sea lions which he knew to be plentiful on
the shores of Oregon and Washington. He went to Astoria and located a
large rookery below Tillamook Head; but found it could be reached only
by a most difficult trail. He made up his mind to take chances although
it was not according to his idea the best mode of traveling. It was
not until the 12th of March that everything was in readiness and on that
day he left Astoria accompanied by his assistant, fully supplied with
nets and everything necessary to effect the capture of the lions in the
easiest way. They went to Seaside where they secured pack horses
and launched boldly into the trail for Tillamook. This route proved to
be all that had been described and a gre