They had my leg bandaged, how and with what I neither knew nor cared.

And it was evident that unless they chose to leave me in camp where I was they would have to abandon all thought of pursuing Masai for the present.

Even Brown saw the force of that, and he was the first to refuse flatly to leave me there.
For a while they hunted through the grass for more wounded men, but found none.

There must have been several, but they probably feared the sort of mercy from us that they habitually gave to their own enemies, and crawled away--in all likelihood to die of thirst and hunger, unless some beast of prey should smell them out and make an earlier end.
Then there was consultation.

It was decided a doctor for me was the most urgent need; that Muanza, the largest German station on Victoria Nyanza, was probably as near as anywhere, and that German East being our immediate destination anyway, the best course to take was forward, roughly south by west.