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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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r the first time during the voyage, I was sitting steering, while the rest slept,when a large sea bird (booby) came along and alighted on the boat close to me.I grasped it, wrung its neck, stripped off the feathers, cut it in five pieces and servedit out warm and bloody. That was our ration for that day. The next we wenthungry. The following morning just before daylight I was alone steering the boatwhen something struck me in the face and dropped alongside of me. It was a smallflying fish, about four inches long. I ate it just as it was. Shortly after a school ofthem came skimming along and six dropped into the boat. I secured them andserved them out. That was our last meal. As the morning broke land was in sight, but a long way off and to windward;it was the Island of Hawaii. We tried our best to make it that day and the next,but it was slow work — with nothing to eat. As night came on the weather beganto change for the worse. Lightning, thunder, rain and heavy squalls came down on
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I CRASPFD THE BIRD AND WRUNG ITS NECK — 90 — US, but we were making such fair progress that by the next night we were close upwith the land. In attempting to debark we got caught in the breakers on the reef,about a mile from the beach. The boat was capsized and all hands were lost exceptmyself, the little craft turning over and over several times before she got throughthe breakers and into comparatively smooth water. The masts of the boat had beencarried away when she turned over the first time. I got hold of some of the riggingand held on. It was hard work, but I kept my head, and felt ten times my naturalstrength all the time. I should think it was between 2 and 3 A. M. at the time.I remained with the boat until she got in towards the beach. Then I got thedispatch box, containing the report of the wreck of the ship to the admiral of thestation, and to the Secretary of the Navy, secured it to my shoulder and left theboat for the beach. I remember striking the shore; that was the

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