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Then
I
saw
what
had
happened
;
we
had
stumbled
upon
a
herd
of
sleeping
quagga
,
on
to
the
back
of
one
of
which
Good
actually
had
fallen
,
and
the
brute
naturally
enough
got
up
and
made
off
with
him
.
Calling
out
to
the
others
that
it
was
all
right
,
I
ran
towards
Good
,
much
afraid
lest
he
should
be
hurt
,
but
to
my
great
relief
I
found
him
sitting
in
the
sand
,
his
eye-glass
still
fixed
firmly
in
his
eye
,
rather
shaken
and
very
much
frightened
,
but
not
in
any
way
injured
.
After
this
we
travelled
on
without
any
further
misadventure
till
about
one
o'clock
,
when
we
called
a
halt
,
and
having
drunk
a
little
water
,
not
much
,
for
water
was
precious
,
and
rested
for
half
an
hour
,
we
started
again
.
On
,
on
we
went
,
till
at
last
the
east
began
to
blush
like
the
cheek
of
a
girl
.
Then
there
came
faint
rays
of
primrose
light
,
that
changed
presently
to
golden
bars
,
through
which
the
dawn
glided
out
across
the
desert
.
The
stars
grew
pale
and
paler
still
,
till
at
last
they
vanished
;
the
golden
moon
waxed
wan
,
and
her
mountain
ridges
stood
out
against
her
sickly
face
like
the
bones
on
the
cheek
of
a
dying
man
.
Then
came
spear
upon
spear
of
light
flashing
far
away
across
the
boundless
wilderness
,
piercing
and
firing
the
veils
of
mist
,
till
the
desert
was
draped
in
a
tremulous
golden
glow
,
and
it
was
day
.
Still
we
did
not
halt
,
though
by
this
time
we
should
have
been
glad
enough
to
do
so
,
for
we
knew
that
when
once
the
sun
was
fully
up
it
would
be
almost
impossible
for
us
to
travel
.
At
length
,
about
an
hour
later
,
we
spied
a
little
pile
of
boulders
rising
out
of
the
plain
,
and
to
this
we
dragged
ourselves
.
As
luck
would
have
it
,
here
we
found
an
overhanging
slab
of
rock
carpeted
beneath
with
smooth
sand
,
which
afforded
a
most
grateful
shelter
from
the
heat
.
Underneath
this
we
crept
,
and
each
of
us
having
drunk
some
water
and
eaten
a
bit
of
biltong
,
we
lay
down
and
soon
were
sound
asleep
.
It
was
three
o'clock
in
the
afternoon
before
we
woke
,
to
find
our
bearers
preparing
to
return
.
They
had
seen
enough
of
the
desert
already
,
and
no
number
of
knives
would
have
tempted
them
to
come
a
step
farther
.
So
we
took
a
hearty
drink
,
and
having
emptied
our
water-bottles
,
filled
them
up
again
from
the
gourds
that
they
had
brought
with
them
,
and
then
watched
them
depart
on
their
twenty
miles
'
tramp
home
.
At
half-past
four
we
also
started
.
It
was
lonely
and
desolate
work
,
for
with
the
exception
of
a
few
ostriches
there
was
not
a
single
living
creature
to
be
seen
on
all
the
vast
expanse
of
sandy
plain
.
Evidently
it
was
too
dry
for
game
,
and
with
the
exception
of
a
deadly-looking
cobra
or
two
we
saw
no
reptiles
.
One
insect
,
however
,
we
found
abundant
,
and
that
was
the
common
or
house
fly
.
There
they
came
,
"
not
as
single
spies
,
but
in
battalions
,
"
as
I
think
the
Old
Testament
says
somewhere
.
He
is
an
extraordinary
insect
is
the
house
fly
.
Go
where
you
will
you
find
him
,
and
so
it
must
have
been
always
.
I
have
seen
him
enclosed
in
amber
,
which
is
,
I
was
told
,
quite
half
a
million
years
old
,
looking
exactly
like
his
descendant
of
today
,
and
I
have
little
doubt
but
that
when
the
last
man
lies
dying
on
the
earth
he
will
be
buzzing
round
--
if
this
event
happens
to
occur
in
summer
--
watching
for
an
opportunity
to
settle
on
his
nose
.
At
sunset
we
halted
,
waiting
for
the
moon
to
rise
.
At
last
she
came
up
,
beautiful
and
serene
as
ever
,
and
,
with
one
halt
about
two
o'clock
in
the
morning
,
we
trudged
on
wearily
through
the
night
,
till
at
last
the
welcome
sun
put
a
period
to
our
labours
.
We
drank
a
little
and
flung
ourselves
down
on
the
sand
,
thoroughly
tired
out
,
and
soon
were
all
asleep
.
There
was
no
need
to
set
a
watch
,
for
we
had
nothing
to
fear
from
anybody
or
anything
in
that
vast
untenanted
plain
.
Our
only
enemies
were
heat
,
thirst
,
and
flies
,
but
far
rather
would
I
have
faced
any
danger
from
man
or
beast
than
that
awful
trinity
.
This
time
we
were
not
so
lucky
as
to
find
a
sheltering
rock
to
guard
us
from
the
glare
of
the
sun
,
with
the
result
that
about
seven
o'clock
we
woke
up
experiencing
the
exact
sensations
one
would
attribute
to
a
beefsteak
on
a
gridiron
.
We
were
literally
being
baked
through
and
through
.
The
burning
sun
seemed
to
be
sucking
our
very
blood
out
of
us
.
We
sat
up
and
gasped
.
"
Phew
,
"
said
I
,
grabbing
at
the
halo
of
flies
which
buzzed
cheerfully
round
my
head
.
The
heat
did
not
affect
them
.
