He gorges himself on gut berries, and becomes violently sick, and he panics when he finds a porcupine in his shelter and is slapped painfully on the leg by the animal 's tail full of quills .When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, was all done with it, nothing had changed he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing . he was sprayed with the skunk he was Blind for two full hours, eyes hurt for weeks, smell lingered at least a month and a half later .When the moose was eating he had to crawl away slowly from her, stopping and waiting when the hair on her back raised up .when braine dropped His hatchet in the water and had to dive for it . when he did not go fore the survival pack first end and beginning