We waited as long as we possibly could, gave up in despair and put a little flour into the broth to thicken it, and drank it.

It was not good, but much better the meat of the cat.

That cat and the rabbits were all the twenty-four of us had to eat, after fasting two days, until late in the evening of the next day.
My people were religious, and when I was young the family was wont to observe fast days, but never did we have any such long fasts as these were.

In the afternoon of the next day the old chief left the caravan and went on ahead of the train toward a chain of mountains, first giving some directions to the band, and taking one son with him.

When we arrived in a small canon in the edge of the mountains we found them with a fine mountain sheep which they had killed and brought down to the dim, little-used trail where we camped; and after we had set up our little tent as usual, a short distance away from our friends, one of the young men brought to us about one fourth of the sheep, while the twenty-two Indians had the rest.
You know that a good-sized mountain sheep would make a fair supper for twenty-four people, even though they had been starving three or four days; but this was a small one, and I think Field and I ate about half of the quarter.