What do you say ?" We told him to go forward.

Then we looked in one another's eyes, and said nothing.

Whether or not the original decision had been wise, there was no question now what was the proper course.
Instead of tiring out Schillingschen we made an early camp by a watercourse, and built a very big protection for the donkeys against lions--a high thorn enclosure, and an outer one not so high, with a space between them wide enough for the two tents and half a dozen big fires.

Before dark we had enough fuel stacked up to keep the fires blazing well all night long.
Neither Coutlass nor Brown had had a drink of whisky that day, so it was all the more remarkable that Coutlass lay down early in a corner of the tent and fell into a sound sleep almost at once.

We were thoroughly glad of it.