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“What is that sound?” Sarah asked. I quickly respond “It's just light turbulence, we will be fine.” I recalled that Jeremy, our pilot, was a former Marine aviator with twenty years of experience, and trusted in his abilities to get us to our destination safely. Then my older brother comes rolling around with a whisky bottle in hand wrapping his arm around Sarah and saying “don't worry honey bun, if anything happens, I will protect.” with the smell of alcohol on his breath and a annoying slurred speech. Since the flight is ten hours, I begin to worry about work, and the meetings that are suppose to be taking place back home in Australia, not to mention the business negotiations regarding replenishing our oil supplies. But my wondering instantaneously …show more content…

Locating the tinder was simple, by using the toilet paper in the rear of the cabin of the plane, with the wood I easily yanked twigs from the trees around us. But making the fire was another story. For there are multiple ways to make a fire, but being crunched for time, we have to come up with a quick solution. As we are skimming through the wreckage, we noticed that there were various packets of cigarettes, and with cigarettes there must be a lighter near by, due to I need for success we are highly optimistic we will find one. But soon realize finding one small lighter in a large plane crash is like find a needle in a haystack. So we switch to prying wires from the fuselage and using the batteries from a flashlight. We then utilize the electricity to create a spark to light the toilet paper and then kept the fire going by using the …show more content…

I assumed that the easiest option would be to go for the calf, which means either leading it away from the herd and killing it softly, or by just shooting it now causing the other oxen to run away. I decided it would be easier to go ahead and just shoot the calf and then skin and salvage the meat. And transport it by putting it all onto a piece of bamboo. So I set up on a high point in a tree lined up and took the shot. Right through the skull, but the reaction of the musk oxen was not of buffalo or cattle where they would run away but, they surrounded the other young in a protective circle. I figured that if I wait till the other oxen begin to walk away then I could go in and skin and salvage the calf, and get back to camp before night fall. But the maintain their formation for about two hours, and the younger oxen had already collapsed due to the trauma and loss of blood. Once the other oxen walked off, I immediately got to work on skinning and collecting the meat, and I noticed that the sun was beginning to set meaning that I only have thirty minutes of ample light. Once I had collect the meat that I assumed would be most valuable, I began to make the the three hour trip back to camp.

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