There was no mistaking them, with their high, covering shields, their great bows, their javelins and armor.
"They passed; we doubled.

We built no fires that night--and we ought to have turned the pony loose, but we didn't.

It carried my instruments, and ammunition, and I felt we were going to need the latter.
"The next morning we caught sight of another band--or the same.

We turned again.

We stole through a tree-covered plain; we struck an ancient road.