:17:01
I suppose I owe you gentlemen
a story.
:17:03
Only if you feel up to it.
:17:07
Yes.
:17:19
We left in April.
:17:23
Six of us in all.
:17:26
Mr. MacCready and his wife
from Ireland.
:17:30
Mr. Janus from Virginia,
I believe...
:17:34
with his servant, Jones.
:17:36
Myself--I'm from Scotland.
:17:41
And our guide...
:17:45
a military man, coincidentally.
Colonel Ives.
:17:49
I don't think I know him.
:17:52
The better for you.
:17:54
A detestable man...
:17:57
and a most disastrous guide.
:18:01
He professed to know...
:18:04
a new, shorter route
through the Nevadas.
:18:09
Quite a route that was.
:18:11
Longer than the known one...
:18:14
and impossible to travel.
:18:15
Get up there! Get on!
:18:17
We worked... very, very hard.
:18:22
By the time
of the first snowfall...
:18:23
we were still a hundred miles
from this place.
:18:25
That was November.
:18:27
Proceeding in the snow
was futile.
:18:31
We took shelter in a cave.
:18:33
We decided to wait
until the storm had passed.
:18:37
But the storm did not pass.
:18:40
The trail soon
became impassable...
:18:46
and we had run out of food.
:18:49
We ate the oxen...
:18:53
all the horses...
:18:57
even my own dog.