But the discovery came too late, and the great man had already succumbed under the load of his honours and misfortunes.
Presently, after giving us a cigar apiece, Scott bade us farewell and disappeared with his daughter over the hills.

And when I applied to Sim for information, his answer of 'The Shirra, man! A'body kens the Shirra!' told me, unfortunately, nothing.
A more considerable adventure falls to be related.

We were now near the border.

We had travelled for long upon the track beaten and browsed by a million herds, our predecessors, and had seen no vestige of that traffic which had created it.

It was early in the morning when we at last perceived, drawing near to the drove road, but still at a distance of about half a league, a second caravan, similar to but larger than our own.