No fairy wand was ever more effective; in less than two minutes they were all chewing and swallowing their breakfast, with an energy that had anything but sleep in it.

It is no easy matter to satisfy twenty hungry Russians; but still there is an end to everything.

One of them knelt before me and kissed my feet.

Poor fellow! he thought that I had done a great deal for him and his companions, forgetting that perhaps I owed my own life to them.
The men were tired: but when they heard that they could reach a city in the afternoon, they made preparation for departure with great alacrity.
We pulled slowly along the coast, for the heat was intense, and the rowers fast losing their strength.

At one o'clock I landed at my former encampment.