It seemed an age after we stopped before my feet were loosed and I was allowed to fall over on the ground.

I lay like a log where I fell, and was asleep in ten seconds.

I awoke two hours later much refreshed, and with a raging hunger.

My ankles and knees had been tied again, but the sleep had taken the worst stiffness out of my joints.

The natives were squatting in groups round their fires, but no one came near me.