He was no longer the light-hearted, inconsequent youth she had known on board the ship.
The brown figures came into sight again, flitting here and there, pausing in wonder beside the stone table, inspecting the cracked nuts critically, and closely examining the ground on all sides.

At last four or five of them sped up the ledge to the cave.
"They have found our hotel," said Hugh grimly.

She gulped and could do no more than nod.
A tall fellow with a long spear and a huge shield, stripped to the loins, about which was a white cloth, ventured up the slope.

Suddenly he halted and called his companions to his side.

He had found a footprint in a bit of sand on the rocky surface.