Changing their course when secure from observation, they stretched across the country and followed the footsteps of the unhappy captives.

But it was only in the pursuit that they became truly conscious of the difficulty, nay, seeming impossibility, of effecting their object.

The guard was armed, and ten in number; they but two and weaponless.

Hopeless, they nevertheless followed on.

Two miles from Savannah there is a famous spring, the waters of which are well known to travellers.