It was a large task, for they found stray beans fully a hundred yards from the cache.

One more day all the men toiled.

The result was pitiful, and the four showed their caliber in the division of the few pounds of food that had been recovered.

Little as it was, the lion's share was left with Daylight and Elijah.

The men who pulled on with the dogs, one up the Stewart and one down, would come more quickly to grub.