I saw him watch the wheeling kites and look below them, and twice I saw him fix his gaze for minutes at a time on one place.
"We will eat to-night!" he said at last.

"Sleep," he ordered.

"Lie down and sleep until I summon you!" But he called me to his side and kept me wakeful for a while yet.
"Look yonder," said he, and when I had gazed for about two minutes I was aware of a column of men and animals moving toward the city.

A little enough column.
"How fast are they moving ?" he asked me, and I gazed for several minutes, reaching no decision.

I said they were too far away, and coming too much toward us for their speed to be accurately judged.
Yet I thought they moved slowly.
Said he, "Do you see that hollow--one, two, three miles this side of them ?" And I answered yes.