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Before
we
lay
down
,
Umbopa
pointed
out
to
us
a
slight
and
indistinct
hillock
on
the
flat
surface
of
the
plain
about
eight
miles
away
.
At
the
distance
it
looked
like
an
ant-hill
,
and
as
I
was
dropping
off
to
sleep
I
fell
to
wondering
what
it
could
be
.
With
the
moon
we
marched
again
,
feeling
dreadfully
exhausted
,
and
suffering
tortures
from
thirst
and
prickly
heat
.
Nobody
who
has
not
felt
it
can
know
what
we
went
through
.
We
walked
no
longer
,
we
staggered
,
now
and
again
falling
from
exhaustion
,
and
being
obliged
to
call
a
halt
every
hour
or
so
.
We
had
scarcely
energy
left
in
us
to
speak
.
Up
to
this
Good
had
chatted
and
joked
,
for
he
is
a
merry
fellow
;
but
now
he
had
not
a
joke
in
him
.
At
last
,
about
two
o'clock
,
utterly
worn
out
in
body
and
mind
,
we
came
to
the
foot
of
the
queer
hill
,
or
sand
koppie
,
which
at
first
sight
resembled
a
gigantic
ant-heap
about
a
hundred
feet
high
,
and
covering
at
the
base
nearly
two
acres
of
ground
.
Here
we
halted
,
and
driven
to
it
by
our
desperate
thirst
,
sucked
down
our
last
drops
of
water
.
We
had
but
half
a
pint
a
head
,
and
each
of
us
could
have
drunk
a
gallon
.
Then
we
lay
down
.
Just
as
I
was
dropping
off
to
sleep
I
heard
Umbopa
remark
to
himself
in
Zulu
--
"
If
we
can
not
find
water
we
shall
all
be
dead
before
the
moon
rises
tomorrow
.
"
I
shuddered
,
hot
as
it
was
.
The
near
prospect
of
such
an
awful
death
is
not
pleasant
,
but
even
the
thought
of
it
could
not
keep
me
from
sleeping
.
Two
hours
later
,
that
is
,
about
four
o'clock
,
I
woke
up
,
for
so
soon
as
the
first
heavy
demand
of
bodily
fatigue
had
been
satisfied
,
the
torturing
thirst
from
which
I
was
suffering
asserted
itself
.
I
could
sleep
no
more
.
I
had
been
dreaming
that
I
was
bathing
in
a
running
stream
,
with
green
banks
and
trees
upon
them
,
and
I
awoke
to
find
myself
in
this
arid
wilderness
,
and
to
remember
,
as
Umbopa
had
said
,
that
if
we
did
not
find
water
this
day
we
must
perish
miserably
.
No
human
creature
could
live
long
without
water
in
that
heat
.
I
sat
up
and
rubbed
my
grimy
face
with
my
dry
and
horny
hands
,
as
my
lips
and
eyelids
were
stuck
together
,
and
it
was
only
after
some
friction
and
with
an
effort
that
I
was
able
to
open
them
.
It
was
not
far
from
dawn
,
but
there
was
none
of
the
bright
feel
of
dawn
in
the
air
,
which
was
thick
with
a
hot
murkiness
that
I
can
not
describe
.
The
others
were
still
sleeping
.
Presently
it
began
to
grow
light
enough
to
read
,
so
I
drew
out
a
little
pocket
copy
of
the
"
Ingoldsby
Legends
"
which
I
had
brought
with
me
,
and
read
"
The
Jackdaw
of
Rheims
.
"
When
I
got
to
where
