The tent was soon pitched and supper prepared, of fried plantains, rice, a tin of sardines, and tea.

Later on they had a cup of chocolate, and turned in for the night.
In the morning they were awakened just at daybreak by great talking.
"Men come for baggage, sar," Ugly Tom said, putting his head in the tent door.
"They have lost no time about it, Frank," Mr.Goodenough exclaimed.

"It was midday yesterday when the messenger left us.

He had forty-five miles to run, and could not have been in till pretty nearly eight o'clock, and these men must have started at once." There was no time lost.

While the Houssas were pulling down and packing up the tent Ostik prepared two bowls of chocolate with biscuit soaked in it.