o, that they might use his body to fortify themselves. A.
discussed with C. the advisability of taking B.'s knife away from
him. Living on their carrier pigeons, they continued on, moved by a
desperate hope of finding someone. B. had several fainting spells
after drinking water traced by moose tracks.

Luck favored them, and they encountered an Indian who guided them to
a place called Moose Factory. Here they wrote the letters home which
reached their wives and the daily press before they themselves
returned to civilization. A great hue and cry was raised by the
newspapers about their plight. Newspaper correspondents vied with each
other for the honor of being the first to meet them and get their
story.

They arrived at a collection of houses named Mattice. A. and C.
proceeded ahead and found instructions for them not to talk. C. went
back to B., who was in a shack with the correspondents full of the
story of the letters. B. became enraged and struck C. who retained his
self-control.

Differences were patched up, and the three returned together to New
York. There the medical examination of the three showed that the four
days in the wilderness had left its deepest effects upon the physique
and mind of B. In a few days he developed an attack of tonsillitis,
with fever, and a mental disturbance described by the medical officer
as exhaustion psychosis. He believed this condition to be the result
of severe exhaustion, prolonged anxiety, worry, and extreme exposure.
Extreme restlessness and irritability, confusion of thought and
an undefined perplexity, all the prominent symptoms of exhaustion
psychosis, making him hyperactive and inclined to acts of violence,
were in evidence.

The physique, character and reactions of Lieut. B. are what interest
us in the case. The pictures of him published, and the structure of
his skull, face and teeth, his hair and other physical traits point to
his being an adrenal-centered type, of the unstable variety, so far as
his internal secretion make-up is concerned. As we shall see in the
next chapter on the different kinds of endocrine personalities,
the unstable adrenocentric (convenient name for the class) is
characterized by rapid exhaustibility because under conditions of
stress and strain, the reserve of the gland is consumed. The adrenal
glands, we noted in a preceding chapter, are concerned with the
maintenance of muscle and nerve tone in emergencies. They are the
glands which, dur