In that time we had crossed the mountain chain, and had come again to the sea.

The Lord was good to us.

He sent us the water, and the horse's skull, and the smooth hard beach, without breaks or the necessity of climbing hills.

And we needed it, oh, I promise you, we needed it! I doubt if any of us could have kept the direction except by such an obvious and continuous landmark as the sea to our left.

It hardly seemed worth while to focus my mind, but I did it occasionally just by way of testing myself.